"In the poetry of Guram Jakhutashvili, we witness once more that traditional criterion and shape is by itself a stimulus for novelty if of course, one has a calling to say something new.
Like a river needs its channel, poetic energy too needs certain shape, form, some kind of order. During centuries poets created a number of poetic forms – sonnet, tercet, triolet... It is these forms that form poetry as a strictly organized phenomenon, which in spite of its restricting shape (or perhaps because of it!) intensifies the pureness of the feelings as in poetry emotions work through notions..." (from Tamaz Tchiladze's foreword)