WILLEM WILMINK (6)

For me, a poem is an image in itself, just like those medieval cathedrals that formed an image of what it would be like in heaven. The idea behind it was that if we do our best, we might be able to make something just as beautiful as later in heaven and moreover, that structure can help us to get there, in that real heaven.





Some poems seem like a big vision, but often more has been sought and toiled than was given.





Rhythm is something like the way someone walks. This is characteristic of someone and often that rhythm is in accordance with someone's statements; what he talks about and the rhythm in which he talks about it, that corresponds to good poems.





I really believe that it is one of the medicines; poetry and art in general for what we are dealing with. The entire art education is therefore of great importance for public health.





You can only understand your own poems properly if you have a good knowledge of other people's poems.





You don't need some professor for the poem to appeal. However, you can say that someone can help you further or give you a key to someone's work.





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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