Nichita Stănescu's most beautiful lines
The top 3 according to 9 votes from people: Young lioness, love, / you leapt at me. / She had been lying in wait for me, tense, / for a long time. · Autumn has come, cover my heart with something, / with the shadow of a tree, or better, with your shadow. · Sometimes I fear I will not see you again, / that sharp wings will grow on me up to the clouds.. (Updated Jan 21, 2023.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Română). See the original
Top 12
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Young lioness, love, / you leapt at me. / She had been lying in wait for me, tense, / for a long time.
From the poem "Young Lioness, Love".
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2
Autumn has come, cover my heart with something, / with the shadow of a tree, or better, with your shadow.
From the poem "Autumn Emotion".
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3
Sometimes I fear I will not see you again, / that sharp wings will grow on me up to the clouds.
From the poem "Autumn Emotion".
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4
I am a living man. Nothing human is foreign to me.
From the poem "I Am a Living Man".
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5
A planet goes by and I ask it who it is, what it is. / And then I wonder that I ask.
From the poem "Playing at Soul".
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6
The poet, like the soldier, has no personal life.
From his essays.
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Perfection does not attract attention.
From his essays.
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8
How good that you are, how strange that I am!
From the poem "How Good That You Are".
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9
I taught my words to love, / I showed them my heart / and would not stop until their syllables / began to beat.
From the poem "Ars poetica".
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10
Only he who knows Yes says No.
From "The First Elegy", in the collection 11 Elegies (1966).
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Only words have being, only they exist, / exist fleeing, frightened of death, of things.
From the poem "O, Things".
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12
The poet has no biography: his biography is in fact his own work.
From his essays.
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