Reflective Poetics Quotes

“So as to unveil a poem in its metaphysical matrix we need (how else could it be?) the entire cultural universe that transcendentally contains us.”
― Dumitru Găleșanu , Luminile omului: lirica filosofică

“Just as the ritual of life has materialized on earth since ancient times, persisting even today in the gentle light of the sun, the poetic expression establishes itself in our tangible world like a gentle sunray that confirms that the human destiny originated in the being. However, as one can notice, in the eternal corroborative kaleidoscope of existence, the contemporary society is nothing but the fruit of the creative power of the wise man that intensely investigates the direct reality, from one end to the other, to the most hidden details, and imagines it in its infinity, even if, ignoring the play with the nothingness and the barriers of the heart, today there is no doubt that the same reality is indefinitely broader than reason and than man’s illusory ambitions to truly appropriate the mysteries of the universe.

The rhetoric of my (purely metaphysical) verse does nothing but interrogate the vast universe of the human condition, consubstantially transposed by the instance of the poetic thought on the eternal winding path of the natural intramundane dimension.

From this (strictly literary) perspective, the sacred art of the noetic poetry resides inevitably in an honest attempt of the poet, essentially tributary through the same human limits, to succeed in somehow transcending his own shadow, even beyond the sublime rose of oblivion, to the point where the endless realm of eternity begins. (Poetic Argument)”
― Dumitru Găleșanu , The lights of man: the philosophical lyric poetry