Quotes by Zaharia Stancu

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The main problem of our literature is its anchoring in Romanian realities, from today the creation of more and more valuable works that will further help our progress, in the construction of socialism, communism.

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The universal prestige of a literature cannot exist outside of its national consciousness and potential... to write about the life of your people means, in the plan of the universal circuit, to integrate yourself into universality.

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Any work of art contains in it an ideological stance, more clearly or less clearly, for or against a society, some ideals or simply a way of life.

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Our first writers were also our first political men. Their literature was closely related to the aspirations and struggles of the Romanian people for freedom, for national independence, for sovereignty, for a fairer, better social order. No uprising, no revolution, no fairer, more social movement took place in Romania without the direct or indirect participation of writers. They sang the revolutions, the uprisings, the social movements, always being on the side of the oppressed, always being against the oppressors.

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The peoples who did not know how to support the arts and literature and did not help them flourish, perished almost without leaving a trace in the history of mankind.

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A literature can only be explained and understood in the context of the history of the people who produced it, who expressed themselves through it, who hoped, struggled, were defeated and conquered, and all the hopes, questions, pains and joys, and he embodied them in words and made them known through his poems and books.