"The true regime of art is joy, that serene tension of the soul, in which life, with its contradictions, appears full of meaning and worth living. Only a defeated pain, without being phenomenologically denied, a pain transformed into victory over our nervous nature, transported from the subjective domain of neuralgia to the universal idea, can be the germ of poetry...
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The true regime of art is joy, that serene tension of the soul, in which life, with its contradictions, appears full of meaning and worth living. Only a defeated pain, without being phenomenologically denied, a pain transformed into victory over our nervous nature, transported from the subjective domain of neuralgia to the universal idea, can be the germ of poetry...
""Regimul veritabil al artei este bucuria, acea încordare senină a sufletului, în care viața, cu contrarietățile ei, apare plină de sens și vrednică de trăit. Numai o durere învinsă, fără a fi negată fenomenologic, o durere transformată în victorie asupra naturii noastre nervoase, transportată din domeniul subiectiv al nevralgiei în ideea universală, poate fi germen de poezie..."