J.C. BLOEM (4)

What someone is in the deepest of his being, is demonstrated by his poetry.



Is this enough: a handful of poems
to justify a life?



A poem gets better as one notices its words less obviously.



Form and content of a poem originate at the same time, are fully inseparable. I would like to proceed by saying: they are equal, they are the same.



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WIM VAN TIL

The heart is the engine of the poem.



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TOSHIMITSU HASUMI

A poem always supposes a collaboration between poet and reader, some sort of co-writing .



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BEN CAMI

Poetry is an animal, a combination
Of the softest animals on earth.



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JACOB ISRAEL DE HAAN

For a poet lives everybody else's life
And dies everybody else's Death.



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LAWRENCE FERLINGHTTI

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.



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CASSANDRA CLARE

Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.



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