Mihai Eminescu

“ Sole God he was, when others were not, and in the dark
Unfathomable ocean gave force to light’s first spark,
He is mankind’s great saviour and source of happiness,
To gods gives soul and power and everything doth bless:
Cheer up your hearts! ”

“ Till I shall feel that each man for me is but a foe,
Till my own self thus hated by all I shall not know,
Till endless pain and anguish my heart have so oppressed
That I may curse my mother whom I, of all, loved best—
When utmost cruel hatred like love seems to my eye,
My suffering forgetting, perhaps I might then die. ”