HEART (2)

Once they were mine, these poems.
What they accomplish in heart and eyes now,
I will never know.
When I finished them, they forgot about me.

Jasper Mikkers



You can't find poetry anywhere when you haven't got any poetry in the heart.

Joseph Joubert



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END (2)

One never finishes a poem, one abandons it.

Paul Valéry



The mysterie of creating a work of art: one thinks to know how to begin, one knows where to go – but one never knows where it all ends.

Philippe Cailliau


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MOMENT

Poetry has no standards. Poetry danses on the rhythm of the moment.

Hugo Claus



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COMMAND

As long as the poet writes, he remains in charge. But when the reader reads well, it will be him to command.

Philippe Cailliau



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PAINTING

Painting is writing poetry which can be seen instead of felt and poetry is making a painting which can be felt instead of seen.

Leonardo da Vinci



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GRACE

If there is any relation between poetry and grace, it must be that poetry is grace!

Frère Gilles



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WORDS (9)

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



A poem should be wordless as the flight of birds.

Archibald Macleish



For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await another voice.

T.S. Eliot



Beautiful words only love themselves.

J.C. van Schagen



'Therefore' is a word the poet should not know.

André Gide



A poet: a person looking for words, a new packaging for his feelings.

Jos Vandeloo



One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire



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PROSE (3)

One should always be a poet, even in prose.

Charles Baudelaire



You campaign in poetry. You govern in prose.

Mario Cuomo



One merit of poetry few persons will deny: it says more and in fewer words than prose.

Voltaire



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