FEELINGS

Writing poetry is mixing feelings with reality.

Ben Moudhi



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CONTRACTION

The poet is a world, contracted in one person.

Victor Hugo



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AHEAD

The poet doesn't go ahead with things, the things go ahead with him.

Bert Schierbeek



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MIRROR

Poetry must be the worldly mirror of Divinity, and reflect, by colours, sounds and rhythms, all beauty of the universe.

Madame de Staël (De l'Allemagne)



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NOTHING

A human being hardly knows wat a human being is. The poet knows everything of nothing.

Jan Elburg



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REMAINS

It's the poet's task to preserve 'the remains' in 'the word', in spite of all opposition, incomprehension and being kept under wraps.

Claude van de Berge



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SIZE

Size is the unity one uses to measure relations. And, of course, there's always tension -as well in art as in one's personal life and society- between order and freedom. That's how we stay focused. In order to express this contradiction poetically, nothing is more fit than the two most beautiful figures of speech: symmetry and paradox.

Renaat Ramon



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