"Only the poets, with their new eyes and their well-known clumsiness, marvel at everything they see, whenever they see it, being therefore, today, the only authors of unanswered questions. There are some that have a notable cadence over time. They impose themselves on the spirit of man, after a periodicity incalculable in the future, but certain in the past... No age has escaped undeceived from their demand, and they have never been less new than they were to the anxiety of the first man... There are the questions of man for man, of spirit for spirit, of life for life...
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Vladimir StreinuAll Translations
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Only the poets, with their new eyes and their well-known clumsiness, marvel at everything they see, whenever they see it, being therefore, today, the only authors of unanswered questions. There are some that have a notable cadence over time. They impose themselves on the spirit of man, after a periodicity incalculable in the future, but certain in the past... No age has escaped undeceived from their demand, and they have never been less new than they were to the anxiety of the first man... There are the questions of man for man, of spirit for spirit, of life for life...
""Numai poeții, cu ochii noi și cu binecunoscuta lor necumințenie, se miră de tot ce văd, ori de câte ori ar vedea, fiind de aceea, azi, singurii autori de întrebări fără răspuns. Sunt unele care au în timp o cadență notabilă. Ele se impun spiritului omului, după o periodicitate incalculabilă în viitor, dar certă în trecut... Nici o epocă n-a scăpat neînșelată de solicitarea lor și niciodată n-au fost mai puțin noi decât au fost pentru neliniștea primului om... Sunt întrebările omului despre om, ale spiritului despre spirit, ale vieții despre viață..."