Mihai Eminescu Commemorated at the Romanian Academy
June 2014
On 16 June 2014, Mihai Eminescu was commemorated at the Romanian Academy within a solemn session where His Beatitude Daniel Patriarch of Romania was also present.
Academicians, university professors, clergy, as well as people of culture attended the event.
To start with, Ionel-Valentin Vlad, President of the Romanian Academy affirmed that Mihai Eminescu is both national poet and a unifier of national conscience: „Mihai Eminescu loved the Romanian people with all his conscience of great creator. Ion Luca Caragiale said about this: “It is a strange mixture: fortunate for the artist, unfortunate for the man”. Many times we quote Eminescu’s words: “Where are you, Tepes, Lord? What I wish you sweet Romania, my country of glory, my beloved country”, or “Life is the dream of our soul” from Poor Dionis, or “It’s a long way to the rising star”.
The poet has built through all these and through many other poems a unity of conscience similar to that of other national poets, like Goethe in Germany, for example. Eminescu is us, in our work, success and failure. It is in the way we are known in the world”.
His Beatitude Patriarch Daniel delivered a speech entitled Romanian patriot and universal man from which we render a fragment below: “Three great creative synthesis come out of the poetic and publicist work of Mihai Eminescu:
Love of the spirituality of the Romanian people and passion for the universal culture; Admiration for the beauty of the Romanian natural landscape and understanding the physical universe;
Eulogium to the history of the Romanian people and passion for the critical analysis of the present issues of the Romanian society.
