The young Bogza made obscenity an aesthetic credo. Shortly after his acquittal, he wrote: "In order to reach a new form of nobility, one is required, beforehand, to vaccinate one's soul with mud." He elaborated: "The word must be stripped of the unctuous senses that have come to depose themselves on it. Cleansed of ash. The flame inside kindled, for the introduction of words, like that of women, is a privilege reserved for the great landowners." Geo Bogza's spoke in defense of taboo words such as "căcat" ("shit") and "țâță" ("tit"), arguing that the original frankness of Romanian profanity had been corrupted by modern society. One of his usual and highly controversial poems of the period read: