Quotes by Alexandru Ivasiuc

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To refuse the extremes simply because they are extremes inevitably leads to the most terrible platitude, as platitude usually is. The appeal to dialectics does not mean settling down in a comfortable middle attitude, of false wisdom, but quite the opposite, understanding, encompassing extremes that are in contradiction. The beauty, never mediocre, of dialectical understanding results not from taking the "little," petty, of each contradictory side, but from perceiving, at the same time, their extreme tension.

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A society that does not have a literature focused on social reality, always following the new creator, empowering him, rejecting habit even, not to mention injustice, is threatened by sclerosis.

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Art apart from attitude is nonsense, and that is why art is always a manifestation of freedom because it presupposes a choice.

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A great work expresses a great consciousness, and consciousness is a report, a relationship with the world... the condition of the creation not only of the work of value, but also of the work existing in consciousness... the absolute necessity of anchoring in the real, in history, in the tension of the age.

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Any artistic activity to the extent that it is a human activity, brings a segment of nature into the area of ​​the human, prepares it through language for our perception and our own being.

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The universe of poetry is also a world within a world and tries to enhance the order and intrinsic necessity of things, to bring it before us, to our peace and restlessness.

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To refuse to believe in a human essence, not in the sense of something given, but of an ideal and a propensity, is to reject the very essence of art.

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Absolute confidence in victory is the very key to victory.

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Historically, victory belongs to those who are right.

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What would a world look like in which interpretations were unique and given once and for all? What truths are so incontrovertible that they do not incite contradictory discussions?... Only tautologies have such virtues, and only axioms have such obvious demonstrative power. But the axiomatic world is poor, general and abstract.

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There is and will be no society in which new truths are not imposed with struggle and do not claim courage.

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There are truths, i.e. demonstrated things, which are first "in themselves" and then integrated, breaking the old model of the world. These truths are historically determined and determine history, gaining more freedom for man from nature.