On the 127th anniversary of the death of poet Mihai Eminescu, a number of officials, politicians and people of arts rendered homage to the bard by laying flowers at his bust on the Alley of Classical Writers in the central park of Chisinau, IPN reports.

The representatives of the Party of Socialists came first to lay flowers. The leader of the Socialist group on the Chisinau Municipal Council Ion Ceban said Mihai Eminescu is a great bard whose works must be read and reread. “Mihai Eminescu is a poet whose works deserve to be thoroughly read by people of all ages because we can all understand what he wrote,” he stated.

President Nicolae Timofti was the next to come to the poet’s bust. He avoided making statements for the press.

In his speech, Mayor of Chisinau Dorin Chirtoaca said that Mihai Eminescu will always be a benchmark, a light and a star that will show the right way to the people. “Then, in the 19^th century, he knew to see and perceive the essence of our nation beyond poetry, prose and political writings. He had a deep soul and an exceptional mind. Eminescu managed to transcend his period and to show to the Romanian people where it should go,” he stated.

President of the Writers Union of Moldova Arcadie Suceveanu noted that Mihai Eminescu continues to transmit messages to his nation by his works. “Eminescu remains the open book of our destiny in front of eternity. He forms part of our being and we are part of his being. At the start of the 21^st century, he continues to transmit the same eternal beauty, combinations of extraordinary words and modeling truths,” he said.

Director of the Romanian Cultural Institute “Mihai Eminescu” in Chisinau Valeriu Matei said that poet Eminescu will gradually occupy the place he deserves – one of the greatest lyrical-philosophical poets of the world - by high-quality translations of his works and by recognizing the uniqueness of his works. “If we, as the Georgians, had known Eminescu’s poems so well, we would have been shaped in a different way. His poems shape the spirit, the appearance, the thinking, our way of being and expressing ourselves and especially our way of creating,” he stated.

Composer Eugen Doga said that for him Mihai Eminescu is a permanent source of inspiration. “Eminescu was a philosopher. There is universal philosophy in each of his words and today this philosophy helps us to create and live,” he noted.

Mihai Eminescu was a Romanian poet, novelist and journalist. He was born in Botosani County on January 15, 1850 and died on June 15, 1889.