193 POETS ABOUT POETRY
Monday, January 9, 2023
ANTOON VAN DEN BRAEMBUSSCHE
Without poetry language would be a tomb.
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Monday, December 5, 2022
BILLY COLLINS
Poetry provides us with the history of the human heart.
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
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Sunday, December 4, 2022
JOHN KEATS (2)
If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.
The poetry of the earth is never dead.
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
KHOSIYAT RUSTAM
The happiness and unhappiness of a poet is like the fate of the whole world.
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
HARRY MULISCH
HAIKU
language is an egg.
poetry: the chick within.
(prose: sunny side up).
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Harry Mulisch
Monday, October 31, 2022
SONN FRANKEN
The poet sheds sentences, full of emotions, building castles of memories into the past of a future that will touch life itself. And then onwards...
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Friday, September 16, 2022
MARC KERKHOFS (4)
Poetry has a much longer 'shelf life'. Prose, and especially contemporary 'pop' prose, has a much shorter life span, is more tendentious and therefore more volatile.
Poetry is like a painting; even after centuries, people still can admire it.
The poet is someone who describes his fall
from his tumble to the earth.
A tear is the magnifying glass of the soul;
what you see through it is poetry.
Also see:
Frozen poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
www.alberthagenaars.nl
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