LEONARD NOLENS

Pre-eminently, poetry is possessing the discipline to do nothing at all, to cultivate the right to idleness.



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ROBERT-EDWARD HART (1891- 1954)

There is a time to sing, a time to dance
and a time to accomplish one’s life in pure
serenity and peace.



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PAUL VALÉRY (2)

If a bird could exactly say what it sings, why it sings, and what in it is singing, it would no longer sing.



One never finishes a poem, one abandons it.





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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ADAM ZAGAJEWSKI

Many contemporary poets think poetry is a linguistic game. For me it is -other than philosophy but with the same power- a way to deal with the main questions.



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CHARLES SIMIC

I proclaim the hermeneutics of the perfectly clear. Its ambition is to find hidden opacities in the brightest sunlight.



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MUSTAFA STITOU

The openess of poems, their ambiguity and complexity must be protected. If you try to explain the poem, you frame it. You fixate. Why would you do that?

Mustafa Stitou



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ERNST JÜNGER

In trance the mind can penetrate further and more adventurously, more directly. It collects experience in the infinite. Without such an experience poetry can't exist.



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