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

YVES NAMUR

One can't catch poetry in a definition, no matter how strong or how profound it is, poetry is always somewhere else.




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