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“Ce e val, ca valul trece” scria marele poet şi filosof Mihai Eminescu în poemul “Glossa”. L-ai citit? L-ai citit tu, cu mintea ta, nu să-l auzi interpretat în frecvenţele vocii unui actor. Acelea sunt frecvenţele lui, ale interpretului. Intră în rezonanţă cu “vocea” autorului prin frecvenţele tale, nu prin intermediari. Dacă nu ai citit
I was 13 when I first read this poem. Of course, it wasn’t the one I was supposed to read as homework. We were studying Eminescu’s poetry for some years, each year one or two poems, usually the ones that were either about nature or considered “patriotic” by the communist regime at that time. But
Gloss Days go past and days come still, All is old and all is new, What is well and what is ill, You imagine and construe; Do not hope and do not fear, Waves that leap like waves must fall; Should they praise or should they jeer, Look but coldly on it all. Things you’ll
Born on January 15, 1850, Mihai Eminescu was not only a poet, but novelist and journalist and, in my view, a philosopher as well. Regarded as the most famous Romanian poet and the first modern poet in Romanian literature, Eminescu lived his short life (he died in 1889) with great passion, always searching for the
Ce înseamnă, oare, 165 de ani? Nu cât, mult sau puţin, ci ce înseamnă pentru partea asta de Pământ, binecuvântată ca un rai, căruia i s-a dat numele de România?165 de ani de când aerul, pământul, apele şi pietrele de pe-aici au respirat Spiritul ce s-a numit Mihai Eminescu! Avem cum a aduna clipele de
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