Quotes by Mihai Gafița

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The writer is the living and dynamic repository of each of us, as we are - the Poet also said it - "the living tombs of the ancestors"... Because even when they paint on him, they paint us; when he cries, he does it in our name, when he prays for him, he does it with us and for us. He testifies about us in our favor for eternity...

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The writer is a reflection of each of his readers in his own mirror; when he ceases to be such a multiplied image, he ceases to be a writer; if there was never such a transgression, it means that he was always only an author, not a writer. In turn, through a strange communion, the writer is the reflection, the projection of his readers, their receptacle. He knows how to say better than us what we want to say, in him we find the expression of our own thoughts.

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The poetic word deifies man - And the one who composes it and the one who listens to it, and man, in turn, deifies the word.

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Literature is not an amusement, but a form, a way of searching for truth, for reason. From a book, at least two or three moments remain with you forever, but those represent peaks of humanity, of truth.

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Literature is, as a whole, more memory and consciousness of humanity turned back on itself than fantasy.

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Progress and tradition are not opposite but complementary categories in art - and not only in art ... nothing in literature and art is wholly or entirely old ... the age's acceptance of a formula do not exclude for eternity the opposite.