Virgil Scripcariu

The Shapes Are Real

Arts & Literature

“Adam, the firstborn, not from the womb but from clay, animated with divine breath, is given the amazing task of naming creation. How did words come to be placed, in the beginning, next to each reality, each creature, each feeling . . . ? I cannot help but think that it was a coincidence. Perhaps the poetic side that humanity has never lost was revealed to Adam then. And then, a thought comes to me, that some of Adam’s descendants are divided into two: those who create images and forms and those who feel the need to decipher them through words, sometimes giving birth to poetry.”