Quotes by Alexandru A. Philippide

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Romanticism, before being a literary movement, is a soul predisposition, a certain psychic conformation, a well-characterized attitude towards life and the World. Romanticism, viewed in this way, depicts one of the two great meanings of the human spirit, that of depth, on the path of dream and contemplation, in the inner world, in the world of psychic events, the other meaning being of the momentum, towards the outer world and corresponding, in the lines general, realism.

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The poet can be defined as the man who throughout his life preserves the ability to wonder, to wonder.

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Any literature carries within it the echo of the social circumstances in which it is produced.

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A true poet is always in the middle of life and not at its edge, contemplating from a distance the storms and earthquakes or, on the contrary, the calms and serenity. This attitude necessarily leads to a close proximity, to a deep fraternization with the outside world, with things and people.

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There is a poetic knowledge that leads to the discovery of aspects of Truth, which scientific knowledge does not always discover.

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The writer is not only a witness of his time, his work is not only a string of documentary records of all kinds of facts with which he is contemporary... The writer has the duty, both to himself and to his readers, to -deeply develop the talent to nourish his vocation with culture and to discover in the present what can go beyond the present moment.

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The function of art in general, and literary art in particular, is to extract from the ephemeral elements of duration by fixing them in forms that are precisely intended to ensure duration.

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Literature, like art, interpretatively mirrors life.

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Only a strong and rich literature receives influences sympathetically, because it does not fear that they will overwhelm it and rob it of its originality.

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A literature cannot live alone, feeding only on itself. Literatures, from their beginnings, develop in close mutual dependence. Influences, infiltrations, correspondences of all kinds, in terms of form, spirit, motives, always stimulate the national background of a literature. I would even say that a literature is the more vigorous and durable the more influences it assimilates.