POETICA DICTIS
Quotes on 281 themes in poetry. See search function (top left).
Friday, December 20, 2024
THEOLOGY
The theologian uses the words, with a poet it is the other way around: the words use the poet.
Guillaume van der Graft (pen name of Willem Barnard)
From an interview in the Flemish magazine Knack
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Thursday, December 19, 2024
CATHEDRAL
For me, a poem is an image in itself, just like those medieval cathedrals that formed an image of what it would be like in heaven. The idea behind it was that if we do our best, we might be able to make something just as beautiful as later in heaven and moreover, that structure can help us to get there, in that real heaven.
Willem Wilmink
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Friday, September 13, 2024
AFFIRMATION
I believe that every poem I write is an affirmation of my supreme freedom, despite my attachment to my body, society, the environment, my friends... Poetry has nothing to do with reality; it is, as Artaud said, working in eternity.
Leopold M. Van den Brande
De Nieuwe Gazet, 08-01-1972
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Friday, August 23, 2024
EXPERTISE
Everything requires expertise: profession, politics, education, even love. But there is an audience that turns away disturbed or conceited when a poem cannot be read and understood at first glance. For these people, poetry must be as flat as their own souls.
Adriaan Morriën
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Friday, August 16, 2024
CELL
The form in poetry is not a cell or an ornament: it simply is the right and colourful, visible appearance.
Vicente Aleixandre
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
LABYRINTH
Poetry. What to me is a system, a world palace, a hierarchy, a labyrinth in which I know my way, must for most people be nothing more than a random sound, fibres of a strange world.
Cees Nooteboom, in 'De danser en de monnik'
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
INDIVIDUAL
A poem always says something different from what the individual parts actually want to say.
Wim Wenders, during an interview about 'Der Himmel über Berlin'
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
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