JUNE JORDAN

Poetry is a political act because it involves telling the truth.



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

PEER VAN MEER (4)

Writing poetry is happiness in acting and being. Writing poetry is a form of happiness.



Only the poem is an Aleph, a place where things don’t jostle one another for a moment but where they are reconciled with each other and the ALL.



My standards for what poetry is, for what poetry should be, are: the poet has something to say; he has mastered his language; he is musically gifted; he is serious.



The poet is born again and again in the poem he gave birth to himself.





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