PRIEST (3)

The poet has nothing to tell, for he is writing from a world that he doesn’t know himself. That's the magic he pulls off. The modernist poet is a magician, but definitely not a priest.

Adriaan De Roover



The poet is the priest of the invisible.

Wallace Stevens



Only three beings deserve our respect: the priest, the soldier, the poet. To know, to kill, to create.

Charles Baudelaire





Also see:
Dutch poetry in Indonesian language, translated by Siti Wahyuningsih and Albert Hagenaars

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


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