जी. ए. कुलकर्णी:
"बेळगाव नावाच्या गावास/ पाऊले जरी दूर भटकत गेली/ तरी तुझ्या जुन्या आठवणींची बुत्ती / सतत जवळ राहिली आहे." (रमलखुणा, १९७५)
जीएंचे जसे बेळगाव, तसे माझे मिरज...
ज्यावेळी मी मिरजेला, २०१९ साली ३५ वर्षांनंतर गेलो, आणि मी २० वर्षे राहिलेल्या आमच्या घराजवळ गेलो, आणि काही काही वेळ तिथे घालवून पुढे गेलो, त्यावेळी मला वाटलेले सी पी कवाफी (C. P. Cavafy) यांनी फार सुंदर शब्दबद्ध केले आहे...
Below the House
Yesterday while strolling through a neighborhood
on the edge of town, I passed below the house
I used to go in when I was very young.
There Eros had taken possession of my body
with his exquisite force.
And yesterday
as I passed along that ancient street,
suddenly everything was made beautiful by desire’s spell:
the shops, the pavements, the stones,
and walls, and balconies, and windows;
there was nothing ugly that remained there.
And while I was standing, gazing at the door,
and standing, tarrying by the house,
the foundation of all my being yielded up
the sensual emotion that was stored inside.
('Complete Poems: C. P. Cavafy', 2009 translated by Daniel Mendelsohn)
[1917; 1919]