Quotes by Titu Maiorescu

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In every word you speak, in every deed you perform, you must imagine that there is someone present whom you particularly esteem or love.

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There are two ways of looking at the world around us: with cold, speculative or speculative reflection. And with a heart full of feelings. From the first way come science books for literature, from the second the works of art.

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Art is serene, it must remain serene even when it expresses despair; and a despair that cannot be detached from dark thoughts is the sign of a great private unhappiness, but not the occasion for poetic conceptions...

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Reading, thinking, writing are pure political acts.

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Not the goal of reaching an individual benefit through writing; not the vanity of seeing yourself past among authors; it is not the ambition to outdo others, not these personal interests that give you the right of entry into literature. Only the impersonal enthusiasm for what you know to be true in your thinking, that alone puts the mark of the called on your forehead.

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The poet is born, no doubt. But what is innate in the true poet is not the disposition for the empty form of rhythm and rhyme, but the boundless love of all that is human thought and feeling, so that from their accumulated perception the emotional idea may emerge to appear in the form the beautiful.

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Through the fog of selfishness, neither the light of truth nor the warmth of beauty shines.