This article focuses on the poetic system of Anatol Codru, an important poet of the Bessarabian phenomenon of 60’s. We analyze the „personal myth” of the poet who writes and rewrites, in fact, one book that is based on the obsessing image of stone. It is a complex image which marked the poet even genetically, by virtue of the existential condition of his ancestors who were stone masons by profession. His work suggests an effort of a continuous „humanization” of the stone. The stone is the creed of strength and self-improvement coming from the national mythical character – The Master Manole.