I got lost in thought thinking of you
Of time that passes and what has yet come through
I aimlessly relived every moment we shared
Days we wasted and every night we dared
Thoughts and the Universe that keep us apart
All come in whispers that shake my heart
I loved you then as I do now eternally
True love cannot be broken it’s our destiny
There are paths where lovers wander
First innocent omens a lover’s yonder
From mere gusts of gentle wind
Turn into hurricanes unpinned
Sudden fires ignite with fury
Only to fade without a hurry
True love my dear just never dies
It’s not a gust of wind that flies
Love is a granite rock you must admit
If you’ve not loved you’ll never get it
Love is within there is no need to mull
Without it the body’s pain is dull
Today we talk about The One in Search for Love, a book by Dan Dutescu published with our publishing house Europe Books.
Europe Books had the pleasure of interviewing the author Dan Dutescu to get to know him better, what was the moment that brought him to the writing of his book The One in Search for Love, as well as the poets he takes inspiration from.
Below you can find our interview. Take a seat and enjoy your reading!!!
- What prompted you to the writing of your book of poetry?
There were several events that left a mark and determined me to write these poems: the premature disappearance of some very close friend, and others that committed suicide because they were divorced, lost ones and lived alone for a long time. The lack of love, affection and compassion pushed them towards this rash act. Another reason was my own experiences within my family and outside it.
- What are the crucial themes of your work?
The crucial themes of my poems are love and its opposite, soul loneliness, the human tragedy through the alienation of the ego from each of us, time and space, life as an expression of a relative entity between two infinities, the nothingness before birth and the nothingness after death. The family was another theme, but also the life of people who live in a state of spiritual and mental despair!
- What is the message you wanted to send out to you readers?
There is nothing more important in life than love and love for people, the rest of the things that generally have a material existence are unimportant, mostly compared to love. Hence the motto of my book: “IN THIS WORLD, LOVE IS THE ONLY CURE FOR A SICKENED SOUL!”
- Who are the poets you take inspiration from?
The poets who impressed me are French poets, English poets, American poets and Romanian poets! The French poets who impressed me are: Charles Baudelaire, Nicolas Chamfort, Stephane Mallarme, Paul Valery, Paul Verlaine, Alfred de Vigny. Among the English poets who impressed me are: Sir William Jones, Robert Merry, Ann Yearsley, Robert Burns, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Keats, Sully Prudhomme. Among the American poets who impressed me are: Conrad Aiken, Wystan Hugh Auden, Walt Whitman. Last but not least, the Romanian poets who impressed me are: Mihai Eminescu, Lucian Blaga, Nichita Stanescu. But there are also other international poets like Eugenio Montale, Octavio Paz.
- Are you working on a new writing project you can tell us about?
I have written several poems recently, about 30 new poems, which somehow have the same “obsessive theme”, love, the ineffable, but also the tragedy and sadness of its absence and disappearance. I think that this theme has an infinity of shapes, experiences, colors, practically an endless symphony of the soul!
Europe Books thanks the author Dan Dutescu once again for taking the time and answering our questions. We are really pleased to have walked alongside him on the editorial path that led to the publication of his book The One in Search for Love. We wish him the best of luck for his book and for his future works.
To you, my dear reader, may this book inspire you, offer you new ideas and give you food for thoughts to reflect upon.
So, my dear reader, all I have to say is to enjoy your reading!
Your Editor!