Among the Romanian poets, I feel closer to Lucian Blaga, because I believe in the immortality of the Romanian village.

Camelia Oprița in WordPress.com (6 September 2016)
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I am a Romanian composer, and I have a feeling of force and confidence, one of a noble ideal, when what I write harmonizes at all with the works of the great Romanian creators.

classic quote by Theodor Grigoriu
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I ask you to stand by my side in the next five years. We shall live a good life in a Romania of all Romanians.

quote by Traian Basescu
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Among so many messianic opportunisms, hope remains the basic job of the Romanian people.

Costel Zăgan in Inventeme
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Romanian spirituality was the tool that contributed to the formation of our character.

Camelia Oprița in book The wall of thoughts (2020)
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What I truly wish you, sweet Romanian homeland [Ce-ţi doresc eu ţie, dulce Românie]

What I truly wish you, sweet Romanian homeland,
My beloved country, longing of my soul?
Nervous arms and weapons always close to your hand
And your past of glory guide your lofty goal!
May the wine in goblets boil and curb the crying
If your stately children hold this in esteem
For the rock is standing, but the wave is dying,
Sweet Romanian homeland, this is my big dream!

Yearning for harsh vengeance, black as grave and growing,
Blood of foes on your sword fuming in the air
And above the dragon, with the wind be flowing
Visions of the glory, triumph and bright glare,
Your tricolor banner tell the world entire
The Romanian people is like a swift stream
When a tiny sparkle ignites his pure fire,
Sweet Romanian homeland, this is my big dream!

The angel who always brings us peace and passion,
On the Vesta's altar resting dressed in white,

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poem by Mihai Eminescu, translated by Octavian Cocoş
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Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
A medley of extemporanea;
And love is a thing that can never go wrong;
And I am Marie of Roumania.

poem by Dorothy Parker
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My father's father came from Russia; my mother came from Romania.

quote by Herbie Mann
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REALIZATION OF ROMANIAN COMPUTERS - In the period 1955-1957, ROMANIA designed and built its first digital electronic computer (1957, CIFA 1 computer), by a team led by Victor Toma, at the Institute of Atomic Physics (IFA ) - Magurele Bucharest. After 1970 followed the construction of Romanian electronic computers FELIX C series at the ICE Felix Electronic Computers Factory based on licenses purchased from the Dutch company FRIDEN and CII, a French private company created in 1966, within the French government project Plan Calcul, in the time of Charles de Gaulle.

Marin Vlada in ROINFO Romanian Informatics 2018-2022
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love in the old craft
the embroidered tradition
Romanian "IA"

haiku by Marius Alexandru (January 2022)
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Having achieved such signal successes in the east, Russia and Roumania being both disposed of, the German leaders planned a campaign designed to crush Italy.

quote by Kelly Miller
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Romania will continue to fulfil its obligations in Afghanistan and Iraq.

quote by Traian Basescu
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Childhood forest

Childhood forest
full of twigs;
me of wrinkles

(translated from romanian)

poem by Ion Untaru
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Since the blood of the country is eternal and immortal, and because in the same royal artery blows Trajan's triumphal march and in order to be, like him, again and always the first of the human race, I proclaim myself Salvador Dalí, catholic, apostolic, Roman and Romanian.

Salvador Dali in Oui! à la Roumanie (January 1972), translated by Dan Costinaş
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Trying To Avoid

trying to avoid his destiny
the man is running
before him

(translated from romanian)

poem by Ion Untaru
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One of the most difficult times in my life was when I escaped from Romania in November of 1989.

quote by Nadia Comaneci
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When I was on my own in a hotel room in Romania, I had the imagination to keep myself occupied.

quote by Rhona Mitra
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Ceausescu's Children 1996

Out of the manholes they crawl
to face another hopeless day.
Not rats or cockroaches,
but Romania's children.
Selling their miserable bodies
for food, or glue.

Food barely sustains, but sniffing
glue anaesthetises their misery.
Children of Romania, raped,
abused, diseased and forgotten.

Alina, just sixteen was heard to say.
'I wan't to die'
Why not?
She's only just alive.

poem by Jerry Hughes
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Mihai Eminescu is the absolute melancholy of Romanian people, in universal tender expansion.

Costel Zăgan in Heretical definitions
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Probably Romania and China and Russia. I think they're all working really hard to beat us right now.

quote by Carly Patterson
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