JOHN KEATS (2)

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.




The poetry of the earth is never dead.




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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KHOSIYAT RUSTAM

The happiness and unhappiness of a poet is like the fate of the whole world.




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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

HARRY MULISCH

HAIKU

language is an egg.
poetry: the chick within.
(prose: sunny side up).




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



www.alberthagenaars.nl
Harry Mulisch

SONN FRANKEN

The poet sheds sentences, full of emotions, building castles of memories into the past of a future that will touch life itself. And then onwards...



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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

MARC KERKHOFS (4)

Poetry has a much longer 'shelf life'. Prose, and especially contemporary 'pop' prose, has a much shorter life span, is more tendentious and therefore more volatile.




Poetry is like a painting; even after centuries, people still can admire it.




The poet is someone who describes his fall
from his tumble to the earth.




A tear is the magnifying glass of the soul;
what you see through it is poetry.




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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

ROBERT GRAVES

Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric.




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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

LAWRENCE FERLINGHETTI

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.




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



www.alberthagenaars.nl