HUBERT VAN HERREWEGHEN (3)

I have begged God to spare me the trial of poetry. It's a terrible burden, worse than I let on.




When I now compare my poems, I notice that every poem is different for me. It's shorter, it's longer, it goes like this or like that. It's very simple: I have thousands of notes and I get them, down to the one that wrote itself all by itself. Then it's work. It is a mine, a silver mine; there are ores, but workers and installations are needed to mine the silver, to extract the poetry.




I, really, have no secrets. Of course, one poem is not the same as the other. There are many ways; I can't control it. I'm a loser and I think most poets feel that way. Actually, it's all about dabbling, fussing and trying to make something of it.




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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HENDRIK CARETTE (2)

I am a tragically slow poet, a tormented calligrapher on the firewood of my word pile. So I feel like I'm constantly running out of time. After all, I am no stranger to the struggle with time. Moreover, I am very reluctant to any easy work. I also don't want to fall into a kind of parody of my own style.





As a pale romantic poet, I am only too happy to mask the gigolo. As an anachorete I suppress the bon vivant in me and vice versa, of course.




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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MAURICE GILLIAMS

A mountain always has style. We have to conquer style. But that mountain has it by its nature. Style. And you can't change that. That's complete, isn't it? That's what I'm trying to do. That such a poem, the feeling, gives the impression that not one word can follow anymore now.





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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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GEORGES PERROS

Anyone who asks about the meaning of a poem wants to know more about it than the poet himself. The meaning of a poem is the poem itself and can only be the poem itself.




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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

LOUIS MACNEICE (3)

A certain knowledge of the poets's personal background will help us to understand him, for his language is to some extent personal.




Poets today are working back from luxury-writing and trying once more to become functional.




The poet is a maker, not a retail trader. The writer today should be not so much the mouthpiece of a community (for then he will only tell it what it knows already) as its conscience, its critical faculty, its generous instinct.




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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CLEM SCHOUWENAARS

Twofold belief and twofold truth: Bach and Baudelaire.




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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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HERMANN HESSE

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.




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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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ERWIN VOGELS

Poetry means for the language what the Le Mans 24 hours event means for the automotive industry.




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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ANTOON VAN DEN BRAEMBUSSCHE

Without poetry language would be a tomb.




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