Quotes by Septimiu Bucur

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Expressing an entire era, the literary work can be representative of an important moment in the history of art or ideas.

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A true writer must reflect in his work the fundamental problems of the people he belongs to.

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The great poets wrote, not for an initiated minority, but for all men. This is not to take the statement on its face and say that any poem that all men understand is great, but only that every truly great poem can be understood by the vast majority of readers.

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In a poetic creation the idea and the word form an inseparable unit. The creator's predilection for one word or another is not accidental, but on the contrary has a very precise meaning.

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A great poet cannot give up his unique purpose in the world for the sake of secondary concerns. The call a poet feels is stronger than all temptations.