BORIS PASTERNAK

The more haphazard, the more true
The poetry that sobs its heart out.



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GÉRARD DE NERVAL

My sonnets would lose part of their charm when being explained.



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DAAM NOPPE

The poet shouldn't try to become well-known or popular. It's best he keeps his poems in the dark, waiting to be discovered by explorers.



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RENDRA

I want to reach everybody with my poetry. Poetry doesn't know friend or foe.



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ALBERT HAGENAARS (2)

A poem is a mechanism consisting of signs, sounds, images and symbols, which turns into an organism getting hold of you as soon as you recognize the beauty, truth and enigma's that are already in you.


Writing poetry while traveling is far more important to me than traveling while writing poetry.



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D.A.M. BINNENDIJK

Poetry is like a plant which is detached from its cause and creator, a natural organism, a flower.



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JAN EIJKELBOOM

Writing poetry means to me: victory. Blood.



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