While in his first volumes Richter focused on reality as an object of many possibilities how to create artistically each of the reality's parts, in
The Secure Place he understands reality in its totality as a reflection of a privately experienced artistic interpretation.
Pavol Plutko (1988)
One (
) of the beaten poets in Slovakia.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1990)
Milan Richter's Five Seasons of Life presents one of the few poets in Slovakia capable of writing on public themes without nervously looking over his shoulder at the recent past. His work is best in a conversational, unbuttoned mode, which moves from public incident seemingly casually recorded into perception, which is often startling and moving.
James Sutherland-Smith
Sensuality, absurdity, irony, and an insistence on values of a personality in social relationships: all this in Richter merges with the consciousness of his Jewish experiential background. At the same time, as a European intellectual of the 1990's, Richter demonstrates his resistance to men in power irrespective of their disguise.
Knut Ødegård (Norwegian poet and translator)
