209 POETS ABOUT POETRY
Friday, July 26, 2024
PAUL RODENKO
Dutch world poetry begins in 1950.
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
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
ADRIAAN DE ROOVER
The poet has nothing to tell, for he is writing from a world that he doesn’t know himself. That's the magic he pulls off. The modernist poet is a magician, but definitely not a priest.
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, June 14, 2024
ROGER M.J. DE NEEF
As a historian, I am less interested in facts than in the horse and cart, the road, ordinary society. Because the poet is nothing but a medium, he must choose the moments to register things, to give them a form.
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, May 17, 2024
GWY MANDELINCK (2)
I assume that a poem is a kind of meander within a stream of experiences. For me, the whole poetry experience is a flow experience.
In my opinion, an aquarium is a small dark water house. The images that you gain in poetry are the light sources that you plant in that aquarium. In it, a kind of rhythm is brought about by the various schools of fish that slide from one light source to another. That mobility can be compared to the musicality that you try to achieve in a poem. Just like such an aquarium, a poem is a closed whole full of rhythm.
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, March 26, 2024
ADRIAAN ROLAND HOLST
It is only in the youth of a poet that the influence of another poet can be beneficial and productive without cornering his independence from that subordination in which this first fresh air of admiration is corrupted by surpressed resentment.
From a speech for fellow poet Gerrit Achterberg
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
Saturday, February 17, 2024
G.M. BERELAF
Reciting poems is quite pointless. I know how it goes for myself as a spectator: I always only get a few impressions, which are mainly due to the performance. I've seen people recite crappy poems in a beautiful way, and beautiful poems in a crappy way. The charm of the presentation is therefore much more important than what you have to say.
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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