POETICA DICTIS
Quotes on 253 themes in poetry. See search function (top left).
Tuesday, May 31, 2022
STREETLIGHT
Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Monday, February 14, 2022
SEMINAR
I’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.
Billy Collins
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Thursday, January 27, 2022
CRITIC (2)
You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.
Théophile Gautier
Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.
Théophile Gautier
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Thursday, December 9, 2021
TENSION (2)
Daily reality (eventually extended to history’s) is at odds with linguistic reality. The tension between these two realities determines the ultimate tension of the poem.
Ad Zuiderent, from the preface of 'Vijftien gedichten' (Fifteen Poems) by Jacques Hamelink
Game and reality: I believe the tension between these two elements is required to write poetry. What one experiences, feels, should get another dimension than just autobiographical facts, should become that other reality. What would poetry otherwise be than indulging in navel-gazing?
Roger Nupie
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Sunday, October 31, 2021
RECOGNITION
Poetry doesn’t accept to be defined, it wants to be recognized. All of a sudden you are affected by something in a way that you know: this is poetry.
Cécile Coulon
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Thursday, August 5, 2021
ABANDONING
A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.
W.H. Auden
www.alberthagenaars.nl
Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Friday, July 30, 2021
STONE
Poetry is one stone meeting another one.
Ellen Warmond
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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