184 POETS ABOUT POETRY
Monday, February 14, 2022
BILLY COLLINS
I’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
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
Thursday, January 27, 2022
THEOPILE GAUTIER (4)
The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist.
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
I was born to travel and write verse.
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 .
Sunday, October 31, 2021
CÉCILE COULON
Poetry doesn’t accept to be defined, it wants to be recognized. All of a sudden you are affected by something in a way that you know: this 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 .
Tuesday, August 31, 2021
SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE
Prose = words in their best order; — poetry = the best words in the best order.
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, July 30, 2021
Wednesday, June 23, 2021
CLEM SCHOUWENAARS
No need to worry about poetry’s survival. For poetry is an ingredient of daily life, unnoticed by most, hence not affected too much.
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, April 30, 2021
VLADIMIR MAJAKOVSKI
Writing poetry is the same as obtaining radium.
Efforts: one year. Proceeds: one gram.
In order to invent just one word,
One uses up thousands of tons of waste or sludge.
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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