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





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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