WILLY SPILLEBEEN

I've actually always wanted to write the perfect poem, but I realized pretty quickly that I always had to start over, and maybe that's why I've written quite a lot of poetry.




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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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VICTOR HUGO

When I say I, I am talking about all of you, unhappy ones.




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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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JOSE DE POORTERE (2)

A poet shouldn't flatter through familiarity. Aristotle already knew that the poetic must have something inexplicable, something opaque.




Most readers don't want to be 'torn away' from their familiar feelings; they want to dream about what they haven't achieved themselves yet. The mystery doesn't interest 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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WILLEM KLOOS

Poetry is the most individual expression of the most individual emotion.




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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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HENDRIK DE VRIES

What turns a verse into a poem is precisely the sense of inner necessity with which intuition unfolds, in sharp contrast to the deliberate intent with which one undertakes an experiment.




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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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HERMAN GORTER

I wanted to strike the brightest light out of the language – because deep in the heart of the language lives a white light.




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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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MAX JACOB

Ideas have nothing to do with poetry, it's the inexpressible that matters.




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