1970-04-15

Knud Ferlov writes cheerful puns to Sonja Ferlov Mancoba about his old age. He recounts an exhibition of primitive painting and the greatness he experienced in it. He emphasizes that in art, what is great comes "from God, from the heart and not just from the mind," and praises the art that still has God in it. Here he quotes three stanzas from Leconte de Lisle's "Hypatie" from Poèmes Antiquies, 1852. He laments the present, where humanity distances itself from God and Americans steal the poetry of the moon. Then he turns his gaze towards the (Bethlehem) star and the innermost part of us that it guides us to.