JASPER MIKKERS

Once they were mine, these poems.
What they accomplish in heart and eyes now,
I will never know.
When I finished them, they forgot about me.



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NORBERT DE BEULE

Poetry is a heightened form of keeping silent.


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ANDRÉ GIDE

'Therefore' is a word the poet should not know.


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HUGO CLAUS

Poetry has no standards. Poetry danses on the rhythm of the moment.



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PHILIPPE CAILLIAU (5)

As long as the poet writes, he remains in charge. But when the reader reads well, it will be him to command.



A poem is yesterday's weather report for tomorrow's reader.



The mysterie of creating a work of art: one thinks to know how to begin, one knows where to go – but one never knows where it all ends.


A poem is a good place to have a shower.



Poets have a good nose for those things that don't exist yet.



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MARTINUS NIJHOFF

How I write a poem? Quite simply, like a rooster lays an egg.



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KARL WILHELM FRIEDRICH SCHLEGEL

What is lost in a good or excellent translation is precisely the best.



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