Sources

“We must address ourselves to the sources. We must address ourselves first of all to our own soul. We must measure its thirst, its pain, its patience. And when we are assured, when we feel that this thirst burns our heart like a desert, when the pain and the patience are welded secretly within us into a single feeling, which is at once contrition and sweetness and courage- then we must address ourselves to the creators. We must search for the spring of human sensibility and try to enter- not now out of profane curiosity but out of concern for our deliverance- that holy circle where those great, living, authentic creators of all ages, to whatever level they belong, have, we feel, some common bond between them. We must try to approach them not through what in an external sense we are in the habit of calling their work, whether this is religion, or poetry, or art, or thought or even science, and which is set out statically in churches or museums or books for us to respect and admire; but we must try to approach them in their very depths, in their original and existential depths, where the wound of their universal and historical and individual being is always open: that secret, open wound, that generative wound which, as the womb of a mother that night and day nourishes the embryo with her own blood, itself nourishes the work that they were born to bring for all of us into the light and into life.”

Siskelianos, Anghelos.