Cecilia Meireles is among the great poets of Latin America. Her poems knew few boundaries, inspired as they were by the sea, flowing seamlessly from nation to nation. And as she explored the sea as a theme, she developed an innate fascination with India.
In 1953, Cecilia made her fascination a reality. She was the first Brazilian writer to spend a considerable amount of time travelling across India, writing impressionistic poems about life here. It was no coincidence that India affected her so, for she had a lifelong fascination with living poetic and spiritual traditions of India.
(In India) poetry is not futile versification; it’s an inner illumination, a sort of holiness and prophetism. The word of the poet is not a personal ability, a dilettante exercise- it’s instead an example, a revelation, a teaching through sounds and rhythms…How fortunate am I to be able to breathe in a country where one still thinks in those terms! What a hope in life! What a renewal of faith in humanity.
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