DRUGS (2)

Hashish couldn't find a more dignified translation than the poetic imagination of Mr. Théophile Gautier, its effects couldn't be painted with more brilliant colours.

Pierre Moreau



The absolute drug, is Poetry.

Charles Baudelaire



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Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

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KILL

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

Charles Baudelaire





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HORSE

I’m proud that I have a good poem
It's like the horse's eyes,
all warmth and deep feeling.



Hadaa Sendoo, from 'Mongolian Blue Spots', Demer Press, 2017.


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SELFISHNESS

All art is a sacrifice. As soon as selfishness rules, it corrupts the faculties. Only the harmonious poethood is great. Everything disharmonious disrupts the soul. This confronts the human being with his surroundings. The true poet knows what his inspiration is worth, also for others, whether they are listening or not. For him its not about an acknowledgement in the wavering opinion of a contemporary. He finds his certainties within himself. They are realized in his work.



Anton van Duinkerken



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MICHAEL ONDAATJE

Most of all I like Michael Ondaatje because his poetry is so prosaic and his prose so poetic.



Joris Iven



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MESSAGE

Poetry doesn't carry any message and isn't necessarily strengthened by an elevated form.



Jan Jacob Slauerhoff



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FISHERMAN

A poet is a fisherman who still finds thoughts in dark water, between fishes flashing by.



Karina Baggermans



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Poetry doesn't carry any message and isn't necessarily strengthened by an elevated form. Jan Jacob Slauerhoff

ANSWER

Poetry sometimes helps us to deal with the answerlessness.



Rick de Leeuw



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HOOP

Poetry is an animal
that prowls around the house at night,
that doesn’t jump through hoops.



Hannie Rouweler



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LAZARUS

It's unfortunate Lazarus was no poet. He would have embarrassed his former criticasters tremendously.


Godfried Bomans



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WATER (2)

There are no songs that can last, or be appreciated, if written by drinkers of water.


Horace




The poet's word is the entire world. Not the tangible earth, not the fluid water, but the earth inside the earth and the water that makes the water fluid.


Paul Snoek



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SOUNDBOARD

It's true, language is a fragile instrument, which explains why so few poems, robbed from the strenghtening soundboard of a similar sense of time, are able to push through the centuries. But it can also be enormously strong; the first task for the poet is to combine the power of feeling with the word.

J. Elema



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COLOUR

Poetry is like colour. Poetry is in everything.

Hendrik Willemyns



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FAKE

No matter how fast fake poetry is, the poet’s truth will catch up with it.

Arjen Fortuin



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DESPAIR (2)

Theatre is poetry which rises up from the book and it is so human one would like to talk about it, cry and weep out of despair.

Federico García Lorca





Poetry always is an act of despair, although it is the desperate act of happiness. Poetry is also the most unusual of the usual things, as long as it respects them. If one only would have more respect for both poetry and the usual things, poetry on the contrary would then be the most common of the uncommon things...

Bertus Aafjes





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Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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ORIGINALITY

I believe in originality; my poems are my property, I am as old as the world, I am different from others.

Jan de Roek



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GIRL

What I write is not for little girls.

Théophile Gautier



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THÉOPHILE GAUTIER

Our neighbours say: Shakespeare and Goethe. We can respond: Victor Hugo and Théophile Gautier!

Charles Baudelaire



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TO HAPPEN

Poetry makes nothing happen.

W.H. Auden



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THEORY

The writing of 'The Groundhog' is an example of a theory I have that poetry is a gift of the gods. It cannot be had only by taking thought. The process is ultimately mysterious, involving a total trust of the whole being, some kind of magical power. When a poem is ready to be born it will be born whole, without the need to change a word, or perhaps with the need to change only a word or two. I thus go back to an ancient theory of inspiration.

Richard Eberhart



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DICTATION

I have written this Poem from immediate Dictation, twelve or sometimes twenty or thirty lines at a time, without Premeditation & even against my Will; the Time it has taken in writing was thus render'd Non Existent, & an immense Poem exists which seems to be the Labour of a Long Life, all produc'd without Labour or Study.

William Blake



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ELOQUENCE

Poetry is at the same time Music, Sculpture, Painting, Eloquence; it should charm the ear, delight the mind, make objects visible, and excite in us the movements which it chooses to arouse; and so it is the one complete and necessary art, and the one which contains the rest, just as it presupposes all the rest.

Theodore de Banville



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CHIVALRY

There is nothing more precious in the world than the poetic spirit, and a sense of chivalry.

Charles Baudelaire



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