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.



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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