Literature
ROMANIA
Nichita Stanescu, the Poet
By Sebi
Nichita Stanescu, the Romanian poet
whose name our school proudly bears,
was born in Ploiesti, our hometown, in
1933. He was a shy fair-haired blue-eyed
child, and later a shy youngster who soon
became a rebel and a non-conformist. He
loved sketching and often withdrew in his
”People gave up the
need
to
be
victorious and to
conquer one another
a long time ago. Our
fundamental need is
the need for time.
art. In his teenage years, he started
writing poems and publishing them in the
school magazine. His vision of the world,
of life and feelings was
totally new and the
images he created
associated unexpected
ideas. Many people
did not understand his
poetry, but those who
did were fascinated by
its beauty and by the
messages
it
transmitted.
Our fundamental right is the right to
time”, Nichita said when he was awarded
the Herder prize for literature, in 1982.
Nichita said that poetry is the only
treasure belonging to human beings that
has not been robbed. ”Poetry belongs to
everyone, there is poetry inside each of
us and the poet is the humble worker who
translates everyone’s feelings into printed
books.”
One of his famous volumes of poems is
called ”The Unwords”. When asked to
explain the title, Nichita said the unwords
are the barbarian silence between two