CEES BUDDINGH' (1918 - 1985)

A poem only comes into existence when it is being read. But each time it is read it begins a new life. And in a different way.



Sent by Bert Bevers



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GEORGE OPPEN (1908 - 1984)

I have not and never did have any motive of poetry
But to achieve clarity.



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CHARLES OLSON (2)

Form is never more than an expression of content.



Observation of any kind is, like argument in prose, properly previous to the act of the poem, and, if allowed in, must be so juxtaposed, apposed, set in, that it does not, for an instant, sap the going energy of the content towards its form.



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GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON (1874 - 1936)

All slang is metaphor, and all metaphor is poetry.



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REMCO CAMPERT

Poetry is listening backward and looking forward.



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RICHARD FOQUÉ

The poem rewrites itself
it can't speak
just letters becoming words
like digits a number



From: De Grote Rokade, 2012.



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HANS DEKKERS

Poetry wants to say something to us but what it is she wants to say remains hidden, although we feel its presence. It is not vague, on the contrary, it's quite concrete what poems do with us. That’s what makes poetry attractive and therefore I’m inclined to dedicate myself to this higher form of stammering.



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