THEOPILE GAUTIER (4)

The word poet literally means maker: anything which is not well made doesn’t exist.



Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.



You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.



I was born to travel and write verse.




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 .