Aurel Pandurescu was gifted with an extraordinary ease of versification

Aurel Pandurescu was a legionnaire and had served many years in prison. I think he was a teacher. He composed poems, mostly ballads, all with nationalist themes or heroes from Romanian folk tales and legends. He was gifted with an extraordinary ease of versification. He was also very prolific and everything he composed, he first wrote with a needle on soap, then memorised and finally erased the soap. He knew hundreds and hundreds of verses by heart and kept this store in his memory, repeating everything every day, either in his mind or out loud when he had an amateur to listen to it. I was one of his most devoted listeners.

(Ion Ioanid – Our Everyday Prison, Volume III, Humanitas Publishing House, digital edition, Bucharest, 2013, p. 279)