ANTOON VAN DEN BRAEMBUSSCHE (2)

The world has become grim these days. On almost every level. Yet poetry is still very much alive. It will survive as long as we breathe and words find the strength to denounce or embrace the spirit of the times, to express it profoundly, and thereby to transcend it.





Without poetry language would be a tomb.




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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BILLY COLLINS

Poetry provides us with the history of the human heart.




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

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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

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