MARK INSINGEL (2)

With my poems I communicate the vicissitudes of communication. Language is a system, and a system works by generalizing. Generalizing is always falsifying because reality is constantly different, it is a one-off.





My work was already the starting point for a comparison with minimal and repetitive music, but I think that the connection with painting also applies. As far as talent is concerned, I often feel like a draftsman and a painter.





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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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

RUTGER KOPLAND

It is a revelation – even a pleasure as far as I'm concerned – when someone manages to put something into words within a conversation in such a way that the other person recognizes something new in it. And that, of course, is closely related to what can happen in a poem. A poet tries to find words for what was still unverbalized."


In an interview to Piet Piryns, Vrij Nederland, 7 May 1988





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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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

CHARLES-FERDINAND RAMUZ

Where there is poetry, there is no loneliness anymore. That is why the poet is at the same time the least lonely and the most lonely of all men.


From: Journal 1896-1943





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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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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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

LEOPOLD M. VAN DEN BRANDE (2)

I believe that every poem I write is an affirmation of my supreme freedom, despite my attachment to my body, society, the environment, my friends... Poetry has nothing to do with reality; it is, as Artaud said, working in eternity.





Poetry is something you have to be constantly working on. Being a poet is a lifelong pregnancy. Because poetry comes from the subconscious, you are constantly working on it, it is a constant tension between the conscious and the unconscious. Poetry is a truth that replaces reality.





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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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

ADRIAAN MORRIEN

Everything requires expertise: profession, politics, education, even love. But there is an audience that turns away disturbed or conceited when a poem cannot be read and understood at first glance. For these people, poetry must be as flat as their own souls.





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

MARNIX GIJSEN

Poetry should be protected from poets, for it is the most precious thing we possess.





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