HENRI-FLORIS JESPERS

The poem is no sediment of feelings but procreator of emotion. As such the engaged poem belongs to the domain of applied art, obviously not to poetry’s graciousness.




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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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FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

Poets are shameless with their experiences: they exploit them.




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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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ELLEN DECKWITZ

My favourite poems don't show the facts but the possibilities.




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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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SEAMUS HEANEY (2)

You cannot will a poem.




Poetry can be as potentially redemptive and possibly as illusory as love.




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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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MIGUEL DE CERVANTES

Modesty is a virtue not often found among poets, for almost every one of them thinks himself the greatest in the world.



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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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JALÂL AD-DÎN RÛMÎ

Poetry can be dangerous, especially beautiful poetry, because it gives the illusion of having had the experience without actually going through it.



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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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PAUL CELAN

Only true hands write true poems. I don't see a principal difference between handshakes and poem.



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