Saturday, August 24, 2013

PERCEY BYSSHE SHELLEY (1792 - 1822) 2

Poetry acts in a divine and unapprehended manner, beyond and above consciousness.



Poetry differs in this respect from logic, that it is not subject to the active powers of the mind and that its birth and recurrence have no necessary connection with the consciousness or will.


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Thursday, August 22, 2013

SIMON VESTDIJK (1898 - 1971)

Poetry is a vertical phenomenon, prose a horizontal phenomenon.

From: De glanzende kiemcel


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WILLIAM BLAKE (1757 - 1827)

I am not ashamed , afraid, or averse to tell you what Ought to be Told: that I am under the direction of Messengers from Heaven, Daily and Nightly; but the nature of such things is not, as some suppose, without trouble or care.

From: Letters


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Thursday, August 15, 2013

NIC VAN BRUGGEN (2)

Poetry has no truth, not anything to determine, it only has itself. It is nothing and yet it is there. One must have a special gift to discover that nothing.


From: 'Portret van een jonge man als een dichter', De Periscoop, ed. July-August 1962, Brussels.




The real poet is a creator, he himself produces what we call the poetic, which he doens’t express in the poem, but writes right through the poem. So, the poem is not the sediment of a poetic experience, but the poetic experience is the poem’s result.



From: 'Portret van een jonge man als dichter, De Periscoop, 1962.





Sent by Bert Bevers
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Monday, August 12, 2013

EMERENZ MEIER (1874 - 1928)

If Goethe had had to prepare supper, salt the dumplings;
If Schiller had had to wash the dishes;
If Heine had had to mend what he had torn,
to clean the rooms, kill the bugs-
Oh, the menfolk, none of them would have become great poets.



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