Abstract: Tarkovski’s poetic wisdom differs from ones of prosaic movies or Russian's “poetic films”. This essay, from the view of etymology, sorts out the development of the poetry and points out that poems are both the product of human creativity at the primitive age and the embodiment of his original creativity and imagination. It is on this basis that Tarkovski sets up his view on movies. He considers the poetry as a philosophical guide of life and holds that the production of films should borrow the imagination of the human original life so as to create images of poetic wisdom. His films interact, resonate and deal with the reality of nature and soul, thus creating a new aesthetic experience in the film history.

Key words: poetic film, life, image, reality, poetic wisdom