POETICA DICTIS
Quotes on 267 themes in poetry. See search function (top left).
Sunday, August 20, 2023
MUSE
Being a poet is, I think, something more than writing, and publishing, verses. Being a poet is more than an appointment and even a fight with the Muse. (…) Being a poet is a style and a content of life.
Herman van den Bergh
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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 18, 2023
ACHIEVEMENT
I don't imagine anything about everything I've done as a poet. But the fact that I am the only one in my century who knows the right thing in the complicated science of color theory is something which makes me proud.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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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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MEANING (3)
Anyone who asks about the meaning of a poem wants to know more about it than the poet himself. The meaning of a poem is the poem itself and can only be the poem itself.
Georges Perros
What one admires in good poetry, is craftsmanship. Poets don't look at each other for some philosophical meaning they give to life but they look at technical skills. Workmanship of the medium, that is what can be appreciated with others.
Derek Walcott
More than ever before poetry offers meaning, because it is not troubled by vague definitions about social relevance or calculable efficiency. Poetry is imagination and the world never has enough of that.
Koen Van Bockstal
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Thursday, July 27, 2023
MOUTHPIECE
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.
Louis MacNeice
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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, July 20, 2023
MILES
Time is money is miles is experiences is poetry is time.
Albert Hagenaars
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Tuesday, May 9, 2023
BACH
Twofold belief and twofold truth: Bach and Baudelaire.
Clem Schouwenaars
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Wednesday, May 3, 2023
DOMINION
A poem is not a deposit of feelings, but a begetter of emotion. As such the committed poem belongs to the domain of applied arts and not, of course, to the dominion of poetry.
Henri-Floris Jespers
From: Het bed van Procrustes, publisher Walter Soethoudt, Antwerp, 1978
Sent by Bert Bevers
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
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