Quotes by Cezar Bolliac

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It is time for poetry to set in motion all its springs for a complete makeover, for a total reform of consciousness, change of all the ideas that man has had so far and has today about the world. To investigate in detail the sources of inequality in society and to destroy all social, political and religious forms and reforms, turning that only theoretical love of freedom and equality into practical and actual freedom and equality...

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The mission of poetry is to strengthen souls by painting the passions, miseries and glories of humanity: to exalt truth, justice; to ennoble freedom; to descend into the heart of the people, to look for their pains, their tears.

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The Romanian nation wants Romanian poetry to embrace all its feelings, its national, political, social aspirations, to be the reflection of everything it feels, everything it hopes for, everything it suffers.

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Through Poetry, all the experiences that human reason has drawn from events and from the investigation of the nature of things have been transmitted to later generations.

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All the ancient legislators were poets: it is proven from the laws they consecrated through Poetry... As long as the human race lives, this noble faculty of its will also live, against those who say that its power has passed; its power is planted in the heart of man, and when its affections, its needs and desires will change, it will always be forward to ennoble them, to idealize them...