N.G. Pentzikis:

From studying the monuments of our religious tradition, I have drawn conclusions about the symmetrically unsymmetrical and about the fact that an uneven square may be geometrically more correct than an even one, about rhythm as the basic element explaining the world and human life…- N.G. Pentzikis

Monday, March 14, 2016

The Birth by Tasos Leivaditis



Birth
On another night I heard him crying next door.  I knocked and went in.  
He showed me a small wooden cross on top of the bedside table. ‘You see’, 

he said to me, ‘compassion is born’.  I then bowed my head and I too cried,
         
for centuries and centuries would go by and we would not have anything 

more beautiful to say than that.

H Γέννηση
Ένα άλλο βράδυ τον άκουσα να κλαίει δίπλα. Χτύπησα την πόρτα και μπήκα. Μου ‘δειξε πάνω στο κομοδίνο ένα μικρό ξύλινο σταυρό. “Είδες – μου λέει – γεννήθηκε η ευσπλαχνία”. Έσκυψα τότε το κεφάλι κι έκλαψα κι εγώ. Γιατί θα περνούσαν αιώνες και αιώνες και δε θα ‘χαμε να πούμε τίποτα ωραιότερο απ’ αυτό.

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