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The article compares the poetics of life and creativity (in their interrelation) of Mikhail Prishvin and Georgy Gachev, a famous Russian writer, thinker, and culturologist. The basis of such a comparative study is Prishvin's bold and in the author's opinion insightful intuitive observation that the "unprecedented" (Prishvin's characteristic concept), which opens the way to the future, is created primarily by such creative individuals who, behind all their scholarship and professional erudition, retain the freshness of souls and youth of the "heart," as if their "immaturity." The author of the article, one might say, studied the work of Prishvin along with the work and life of Gachev, with whom he had been friends for a long time, with "kindred attention." One of the most compelling reasons for such a comparison is the diary nature of the creative process for both writers - Prishvin and Gachev. Both writer-thinkers are brought closer by the article to the tradition of "living knowledge" in Russian philosophy. Without belittling the importance of intelligence and science, both of them shared Pascal's position: above the level of the abstract mind stands, as Gachev said, the "attracted" mind, the mind of the heart and integrity, which opens the way to the spiritual dimension of existence.