236 POETS ABOUT POETRY

Thursday, November 30, 2023

I am a tragically slow poet, a tormented calligrapher on the firewood of my word pile. So I feel like I'm constantly running out of time. After all, I am no stranger to the struggle with time. Moreover, I am very reluctant to any easy work. I also don't want to fall into a kind of parody of my own style.

As a pale romantic poet, I am only too happy to mask the gigolo. As an anachorete I suppress the bon vivant in me and vice versa, of course.

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

A mountain always has style. We have to conquer style. But that mountain has it by its nature. Style. And you can't change that. That's complete, isn't it? That's what I'm trying to do. That such a poem, the feeling, gives the impression that not one word can follow anymore now.

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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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

www.alberthagenaars.nl
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