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
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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