LOUIS MACNEICE (3)

A certain knowledge of the poets's personal background will help us to understand him, for his language is to some extent personal.




Poets today are working back from luxury-writing and trying once more to become functional.




The poet is a maker, not a retail trader. The writer today should be not so much the mouthpiece of a community (for then he will only tell it what it knows already) as its conscience, its critical faculty, its generous instinct.




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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CLEM SCHOUWENAARS

Twofold belief and twofold truth: Bach and Baudelaire.




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
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HERMANN HESSE

A house without books is a poor house, even if beautiful rugs are covering its floors and precious wallpapers and pictures cover its walls.




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

ERWIN VOGELS

Poetry means for the language what the Le Mans 24 hours event means for the automotive industry.




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

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



www.alberthagenaars.nl

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