Quotes by Ovid Densusianu

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Any change, any innovation in literature is a sign of soul liberation, it's like a conquest of thought beyond the borders between which time has kept them shackled.

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When we find ourselves in front of a literary work, what we ask is to give us the opportunity to intervene with our personality, to add our soul to that of the author.

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If artists are told: "look around you and you will find plenty to inspire you", another piece of advice should complement these words: "look also behind and try to see in what world the artists stopped their of old their soul and what remained of what they meant in the lines of a book, on the face of a canvas or a block of marble".

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To a writer... man is interesting more in what raises him above others than in what brings him close to them.

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Free verse - the true verse of this kind, because many have been written and are being written that do not deserve the name - are based on the principle of internal harmony, of musicality tight between the smallest parts that make them up; their rhythm, varied or capricious at first sight, is of a unity, of a condensation which only one with old-school prejudices cannot recognize.

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Well applied, free verse ends up producing musical effects previously unknown in poetry...

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In traditional verse the main harmonic element is the rhyme: it is continuously followed by the poet as well as the reader; but rhyme is only a partial harmony - final harmony - of the verses; nevertheless, a lot of value was placed and is placed on it in ordinary versification, and that is why how many did not think they were poets only because they rhymed with some skill!...

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From this it followed that the other element, harmony and the most important, rhythm, was not always given due attention - if the rhyme finally produced its effect, the poet was satisfied, he did not always care if the rhythm was correct...

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If free verse is a refinement of rhythmic harmony and pays more attention to the way words are associated, in all respects, it is certain that it is called to play a significant role in the development of the literary language, in the efforts to ennoble it.