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Can poetry bring to the point of making a man choose between a life dedicated to God and one dedicated te poetry? Can poetry get to the point where it becomes the drama of a man's own existence? Yes, it can. Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas devoted a long novel to this drama: Altorių šešėly (In the shadows of the altars). The novel was published in 1933. Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893 - 1967) was a Lithuanian poet, writer and playwright. His most famous novel is "Altorių šešėly", a psychological novel. The novel is about the life, feelings, and inner conflicts of Ludos Vasaris, a young priest. The work deals with many psychological problems: the priesthood, the search for a life path, and the freedom of the artist's personality. The crucial theme of the novel is: can the same person be both, a priest and a poet? No, it cannot because that will lead to schizophrenia. The main character of the work is the intellectual Liudas Vasaris, who enters the priestly seminary and stud...

From today onward I start a new section in this blog. I will publish sentences of writers from the past that have a high significance for the present time we live in, as if they would have foreseen what one day would have surfaced ia n total and unquestionable way. Here is a sentence from a Lithuanian writer, Vincas Mykolaitis-Putinas (1893 - 1967) poet, writer and playwright. His most famous novel is " Altorių šešėly " (In the shadows of the altars). “Yra žmonių, kurių vienintelis paskyrimas — puošti pasaulį ir daryti kitiems malonumą. [...] Jie bus gerai išauklėti, malonūs, turės geras manieras, bet absoliučiai niekam nenaudingi. Jie neturės jokių pareigų ir nedirbs jokio darbo. Nedarydami niekam naudos, jie nedarys niekam nei žalos. Ir į klausimą, koks tų žmonių buvimo pateisinimas, nerasi jokio atsakymo kaip vien tai, kad jie puošia pasaulį. Kai kas tokius žmones vadina visuomenės parazitais.” ( Altorių šešėly) "There are people whose only purpose is to decorate the ...