# Nichita Stănescu's most beautiful lines

From "Young Lioness, Love" and "Autumn Emotion" to "How good that you are, how strange that I am!": the lines by Nichita Stănescu (1933–1983) that every Romanian knows, with the title of each poem.

- 9 votes · 12 items
- Jan 21, 2023 · Raluca Pop
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## Top 12

1. **Young lioness, love, / you leapt at me. / She had been lying in wait for me, tense, / for a long time.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — From the poem "Young Lioness, Love".
2. **Autumn has come, cover my heart with something, / with the shadow of a tree, or better, with your shadow.** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — From the poem "Autumn Emotion".
3. **Sometimes I fear I will not see you again, / that sharp wings will grow on me up to the clouds.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From the poem "Autumn Emotion".
4. **I am a living man. Nothing human is foreign to me.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From the poem "I Am a Living Man".
5. **A planet goes by and I ask it who it is, what it is. / And then I wonder that I ask.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From the poem "Playing at Soul".
6. **The poet, like the soldier, has no personal life.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From his essays.
7. **Perfection does not attract attention.** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — From his essays.
8. **How good that you are, how strange that I am!** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the poem "How Good That You Are".
9. **I taught my words to love, / I showed them my heart / and would not stop until their syllables / began to beat.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the poem "Ars poetica".
10. **Only he who knows Yes says No.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From "The First Elegy", in the collection 11 Elegies (1966).
11. **Only words have being, only they exist, / exist fleeing, frightened of death, of things.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From the poem "O, Things".
12. **The poet has no biography: his biography is in fact his own work.** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — From his essays.

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