Quotes by Ion Chinezu

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Art, more than once, itself creates new forms of being or reveals the consciousness of an as yet unsuspected life... and... literature can be not only annex, a passive and posthumous reflex of a social process, but, on the contrary, opener , creator of roads.

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By poetry we understand the art of capturing life in its most intimate tremors, at the point where the boundaries of experience touch the boundless unknown, the unfathomable miracle.

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To capture the emotion in the warm bed of the heart, to make the word the transparent vessel of the soul's contents, to return it to the modest and beautiful function of a submissive and faithful herald, this is the path we dream of for Romanian poetry.

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The literary life of an era is, above all, a context whose endings, however diverse, testify to a solidarity, a kinship, - and any work, even when it shows itself rebellious to the attempt to sum it up, is never independent of the atmosphere of the time, to which it is connected in one way or another - if only by contrast and protest.