JOHN BERRYMAN (4)

You should always be trying to write a poem you are unable to write, a poem you lack the technique, the language, the courage to achieve. Otherwise you're merely imitating yourself, going nowhere, because that's always easiest.



I can offer you only: this world like a knife.



Them lady poets must not marry, pal.



I didn't want to be like Yeats; I wanted to be Yeats.




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



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