SALVATION

Heaven's prayers and Mary's merged to a far eternity that was speaking to me. From then on I kept hearing poetry's voice as if coming from depths behind our temporariness. It connects the races of mankind. It reveals the essence of our life. It uplifts our eyes above the appearance of things. It allows us to look into the spectacle of salvation itself.

Anton van Duinkerken



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SNOW

Snow. Finally we can write poems on car windows again.

Loesje



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ORE

I become ore, quarried by no one.

Frank Pollet



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REASON

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

André Gide



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PHENOMENON

Poetry can say it's raining when actually the sun is shining and also that it's nice weather when it is raining; poetry says things about phenomena which are not directly perceptible. It's precisely because of this, one is constrained to see things one normally doesn't see.

Ray Queneau



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