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Where there is no law, but every man does what is right in his own eyes, there is the least of real liberty
Henry M. Robert

My “Blue bird”

Nobel laureate Maurice Maeterlinck was born on August 29, 1862
28 August, 2013 - 15:39

Great Belgian writer, philosopher, and, I would say, a mystic to some extent. I first read the play Blue Bird by Maurice Maeterlinck when I was 15, of course, following my mother’s advice, who truly felt my mood and knew what I needed to read at a certain period of “spiritual search.”

Just as my mother had expected, I was greatly impressed with this book and it became a guide for me on my way to discovering the true values. I easily read the play as if it was a fairy tale, which turned out to be quite true. And the mystical parts such as, for example, the ability to see the soul of things, or the Land of Memory – it all became an inexhaustible source of motifs for drawings for my fantasy. Speaking of drawings. This was another discovery for me: illustrations in this book are very beautiful! They were full of various details, strips, and strokes, and curves – I had never come across so many expressive means in black and white drawings before! Thus, Blue Bird became not only my guide for life, but also a guide for my creative work.

Sketch by the author

I very often think with gratefulness about this little book and its author, which influenced me more than a great number of textbooks.

By Anna HAVRYLIUK, The Day
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