POEME ROMÂNESTI ÎN LIMBI STRĂINE

 

Gheorghe GRIGURCU

 ‘Gheorghe Grigurcu is and will certainly remain one of the finest authors of aphorisms in Romanian literature.’  (Ana Blandiana)
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The bitter irony for all that you have done, the bitter hope for all that you do from now on.
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Only your momemts of naivity, your blunders, your mistakes allow me to see that you are alive, that you still have something to say.
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Virtue never deceives itself, vice instead, whenever possible.
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The most complex act of intelligence (never carried out) is the circumscribing of the folly.
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Creation is beyond history out of  self-pride (eager to remain suspended on equal terms with itself) and historical from vanity (eager to find o ‘noble’ filiation and an ‘advantageous’ place in the literary becoming).
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Guilt: a difficult, permanent equilibristic between you and the others.
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Inspiration necessarily passes through sterility just as rain water crosses the layer of dry clay before it feeds the roots.

This skilful creator of abysses looks like an architect who builds dwellings only for other people.
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Flunkeys are often….intelligent fools, that is active, informed, kind, prompt, adjustable, etc.
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‘ A persecuted gifted man is ever more powerful than ‘the ruling’ (Balzac).
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It is contrary to the saying, far from eye, far from heart, just because of the natural wear and tear involved in usage.
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From the original sin, no tradition has been fully genuine any more.
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Some of those who protest against injustice are so impure that they spoil  their own protest. And, yet, they stand by those who are worthy, and the worthy stand by them, as if all is right.
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‘To me malice is the only real sin’ (Ion Barbu)
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It is no need abasing ecstasy by considering it a form of optimism.

Translations by Olimpia IACOB