Felipe Juaristi Galdos

The Angle Of Value
 
Life is measured
by the intensity
and desire that it is lived with.
So, a moment
becomes a century;
and a century passes by,
like a flood
in an uncontainable flow.
Few people know
what it means to live,
nor do they know
what death takes with it,
inevitable farewell.
But we also need to decide
who and what
we live for.
Whether we truly live 
or we live a lie.
A true artist
never lies.
The pain and joy
that dwell inside them
are reflected in their gaze
which forms
a formal right angle
with their most intimate space.
Hence words form
that fall like seeds.
This is how images form
that take shape like stars.
The value of art
is measured in the amount
of truth and life
that the artist conveys.
 

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Felipe Juaristi Galdos was born in Azkoitia (Gipuzkoa) in 1957. He studied journalism at the University of Madrid. He's a writer and a journalist by profession. He has published more than twenty-five books in all genres of literature, especially poetry, and is also a keen collaborator in the press. He has been director of Euskadi Irratia, public radio, 2010-2013. Professor at the University of the Basque Country. He has received numerous awards and mentions as a writer. As a screenwriter, he has worked on ETB's cultural programs; he is director of the Mario Onaindia Foundation's Grand Place magazine. The founding partner of Balea Zuria (White Whale) Publishing House, too. His latest book Harrizko Gaitz Hau (This Stone Scourge) is a poetry book published in 2022 in the publishing house Balea Zuria (White Whale).

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