Arthur, I think that the original source (Romanian) was this:

http://www.gallup.unm.edu/~smarandache/lci.htm

I quote from the interview:

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The Reporter: Do you have a preference for a certain category of words?

Ovidiu Florentin: Poetry is a clinic for words. There are so many that are
banal, worn out, that poetry has to be cleared of them. I prefer raw words,
while the verb must be sharp, where it does not exist. Sipping the meanings
of words leaves only a dry shell in the end, a nothing. One has to perceive
the sound and harden it through blood's ember, and only after you are
convinced that it's perfect should you check it again! The critic's duty is
to measure the resistance of time to verse.

The Reporter: How does today's critic seem to you?

Ovidiu Florentin: Critics are men of order, men of the letter, but not all
of them; some are the mice of words. It is true that the new critics have
appeared solely for the reaping of words.

The Reporter: Which of them do you appreciate most?

Ovidiu Florentin: The most famous of critics is Time. Only it can select and
classify the value of words. Some are a bit rushing with labels, but a
personality truly lives only after death.
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Best Wishes,
Roger

----- Original Message -----
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Sent: Wednesday, November 12, 2003 9:09 AM
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> Yes this is where I read it. I was looking for Portuguese poetry in
English
> and found this site.Gerald England is in there somewhere, too, reviewing.
> Thanks Roger. Arthur.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Roger Collett" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 3:43 PM
> Subject: Re: Comments please.
>
>
> > Try this URL:
> >
> > http://www.nhi.clara.net/bs0038.htm
> >
> > Roger
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "Arthur Seeley" <[log in to unmask]>
> > To: <[log in to unmask]>
> > Sent: Tuesday, November 11, 2003 9:33 AM
> > Subject: Comments please.
> >
> >
> > I am unable to acknowledge the source because I forgot it but I invite
> your
> > comments on the remark, " Poetry is a clinic for words"
> > Discuss in less than 500 words, to be handed in by 31st November.
Regards
> > Arthur.