Click in the field, then press CTRL+C to copy the HTML code
<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589662" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Impetus [Avânt]</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As ships on the wide sea stop quickly for a while<br>Whenever the wind drops and sails perched on the mast<br>Hang down in calm repose under the moon's big smile,<br>But the bright silver rays in vain on them are cast;<br>As violin curbs its sound when strings too loose do lie<br>And hardly one can hear, as if he's fast asleep,<br>Nice and delightful notes, which fly above or die,<br>And all pervade the mind and their sweet charm is deep;<br>So in the griefs of life the poet cannot write,<br>His heart is in great pain and blood flows down his chest,<br>Dislikes the things around, deems nothing is all right, <br>And in his frozen soul all feelings are at rest. <br>The same is with the sailor aboard the ship that stopped,..<br>When the big boat was swimming to rise high he could dare,<br>The water reflects gently his lifeless looks that dropped<br>In its amazing mirror that stretches everywhere. <br>Those moments are so sad! Because beneath the stars<br>The poet's injured heart will quickly fall asleep<br>Like the majestic sea, but it is full of scars,<br>Because regret and hope can't sing in him, down deep. <br>But, as when calm dispels and breeze will blow instead<br>And suddenly the ship will tremble on the waves,<br>And its inflated sails will carry it ahead<br>Like if it were a steed which for free rein then craves; <br>So when the inspiration abruptly rise and shines<br>And unseen wings will carry them all up in the sky,<br>Will reappear on paper the ribbons of sweet lines,<br>And out of heavy body the soul begins to fly. <br>Lyrism and satire will play on his wide brow<br>Like thunders thrown by God down here with so much art,<br>And he, a novel Moses, will climb the mountain now<br>To plant some other laws inside the human heart. <br>No matter that behind is so much spite and hate<br>He laughs when evil men say words of him malign,<br>So high he aims and, lo, he is so bold and great,<br>That everything encircles: be earthly or divine!<br>And harmony he sees in all the worlds that live,<br>He penetrates the dark of the eternal All;<br>How matter boils he finds and passes through the sieve,<br>To follow in the depths the comets that will fall; <br>The science's frontiers he always will defy...<br>The atoms come to life, he feels them living there...<br>He hears when they are glad or when they wail and cry<br>In their eternal dance performed with so much care. <br>Among the people comes and knows to soothe them all,<br>His song will overflow and like the hyssop's bud,<br>Will clean and wash away the passions that enthrall...<br>Offense cannot afflict him, he's not afraid of flood; <br>Feels pity for all those whose soul will surely die,<br>The tyrant stops at once when with his whip is struck,<br>But, woe! He who will live forever in the sky<br>In life has got no bread, no chance and no good luck.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Alexandru+Macedonski">Alexandru Macedonski</a>, translated by Octavian Cocoş<div class=q>
<img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share">
<script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=589662" data-title="Impetus [Avânt] de Alexandru Macedonski" data-description="As ships on the wide sea stop quickly for a while/Whenever the wind drops and sails perched on the mast/Hang down in calm repose under the moon's big smile,/But the bright silver rays in vain on them are cast;/As violin curbs its sound when string..."></div>
</div>
</div>