Many contemporary poets think poetry is a linguistic game. For me it is -other than philosophy but with the same power- a way to deal with the main questions.
Adam Zagajewski
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Philosophy is the hospital of poetry.
Novalis
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Thursday, January 10, 2013
Wednesday, January 9, 2013
RHYTHM (3)
In my opinion, an aquarium is a small dark water house. The images that you gain in poetry are the light sources that you plant in that aquarium. In it, a kind of rhythm is brought about by the various schools of fish that slide from one light source to another. That mobility can be compared to the musicality that you try to achieve in a poem. Just like such an aquarium, a poem is a closed whole full of rhythm.
Gwy Mandelinck
Poetry has no standards. Poetry danses on the rhythm of the moment.
Hugo Claus
Poetry is a slumbering thought which wakes up on rhythm and sound.
Catharina Boer
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Gwy Mandelinck
Poetry has no standards. Poetry danses on the rhythm of the moment.
Hugo Claus
Poetry is a slumbering thought which wakes up on rhythm and sound.
Catharina Boer
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Saturday, January 5, 2013
VAGUENESS
Most people have such a vague idea about poetry, that this vagueness itself becomes the definition of poetry for them.
Paul Valéry
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Paul Valéry
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POWER
When power narrows the areas of man's concern, poetry reminds him of the richness and diversity of his existence. When power corrupts, poetry cleanses.
President J.F. Kennedy (or his spin doctor)
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President J.F. Kennedy (or his spin doctor)
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Friday, January 4, 2013
EGG
How I write a poem? Quite simply, like a rooster lays an egg.
Martinus Nijhoff
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Martinus Nijhoff
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EXPERIENCE
For poems are not, as people think, feelings (one has them early enough) - they are experiences.
Rainer Maria Rilke
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Rainer Maria Rilke
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MERIT
One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.
Voltaire
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Voltaire
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PAPER
Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, unfortunately, not as easy as looking at it.
Vincent van Gogh
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Vincent van Gogh
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SILENCE (4)
Poetry is a heightened form of keeping silent.
Norbert De Beule
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
A poem doesn't only consist of words - it consists of words and their silence.
Martinus Nijhoff
Words may only serve to improve the silence.
Karel Jonckheere
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Norbert De Beule
Poetry is an orphan of silence. The words never quite equal the experience behind them.
Charles Simic
A poem doesn't only consist of words - it consists of words and their silence.
Martinus Nijhoff
Words may only serve to improve the silence.
Karel Jonckheere
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HISTORY (3)
Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history, for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular.
Aristotle
Poetry is closer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Poetry provides us with the history of the human heart.
Billy Collins
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
Aristotle
Poetry is closer to vital truth than history.
Plato
Poetry provides us with the history of the human heart.
Billy Collins
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Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars
Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry
MUSIC (2)
The poet is a sculptor who paints music.
Clem Schouwenaars
A man should hear a little music, read some poetry, and see a fine picture each day of his life, in order to prevent that worldly worries obliterate the sense of beauty which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Clem Schouwenaars
A man should hear a little music, read some poetry, and see a fine picture each day of his life, in order to prevent that worldly worries obliterate the sense of beauty which God has implanted in the human soul.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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PACKING
A poet: a person looking for words, a new packaging for his feelings.
Jos Vandeloo
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Jos Vandeloo
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Thursday, January 3, 2013
Wednesday, January 2, 2013
IGNORANCE
Poetry is the only domain where ignorance can beat academicism.
Herman De Coninck
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Herman De Coninck
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WOLF
Do you know how poetry started? I always think that it started when a cave boy came running back to the cave, through the tall grass, shouting as he ran, “Wolf, wolf,” and there was no wolf. His baboon-like parents, great sticklers for the truth, gave him a hiding, no doubt, but poetry had been born—the tall story had been born in the tall grass.
Vladimir Nabokov
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Vladimir Nabokov
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NEW YEAR
For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.
T.S. Eliot
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T.S. Eliot
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