RENDRA

I want to reach everybody with my poetry. Poetry doesn't know friend or foe.



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ALBERT HAGENAARS (2)

A poem is a mechanism consisting of signs, sounds, images and symbols, which turns into an organism getting hold of you as soon as you recognize the beauty, truth and enigma's that are already in you.


Writing poetry while traveling is far more important to me than traveling while writing poetry.



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D.A.M. BINNENDIJK

Poetry is like a plant which is detached from its cause and creator, a natural organism, a flower.



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JAN EIJKELBOOM

Writing poetry means to me: victory. Blood.



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J.C. BLOEM (4)

What someone is in the deepest of his being, is demonstrated by his poetry.



Is this enough: a handful of poems
to justify a life?



A poem gets better as one notices its words less obviously.



Form and content of a poem originate at the same time, are fully inseparable. I would like to proceed by saying: they are equal, they are the same.



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WIM VAN TIL

The heart is the engine of the poem.



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TOSHIMITSU HASUMI

A poem always supposes a collaboration between poet and reader, some sort of co-writing .



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