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

Thursday, June 16, 2016

The Cretan by Dionysios Solomos (Selections from a Fragment)





And the sea, that earlier stirred like boiling liquid,
Became still and everywhere spread calm and quiet,
Like a fragrant flower bed reflecting stars bright;
A certain secret mystery embraced all of nature
Adorning it with beauty and peace like a quiet pasture.
In the sky there was no breath, on the sea the blowing
Wind was gentle as a bee’s brush of a flower in its flying…

And before me, lo, appeared she, dressed in the moon.
The cool light trembled in front of her divine sight,
In her dark eyes and in her golden hair so bright.

I gazed at her, wretched me, she gazed at me intently.
Thought to myself I had seen her, way back in the past

Perhaps in a church painted by an artist unsurpassed… 

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