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Yaniv's poetic work deserves an extensive and thorough analysis. It is safe to say that if the circumstances had been different, if his life had not required him to make heavy administrative, scientific and public efforts, poetry would have played the first and leading role in his life. But Yaniv was aware of the fact that serving the Ukrainian cause required, first of all, ant-like daily work, and poetry, as such, although he took it very seriously, was a luxury that had to come second. Yaniv felt that being a poet was not enough in his circumstances, that prosaic social work had to come first, and he lived and acted according to this imperative.