TENSION (2)

Daily reality (eventually extended to history’s) is at odds with linguistic reality. The tension between these two realities determines the ultimate tension of the poem.

Ad Zuiderent, from the preface of 'Vijftien gedichten' (Fifteen Poems) by Jacques Hamelink





Game and reality: I believe the tension between these two elements is required to write poetry. What one experiences, feels, should get another dimension than just autobiographical facts, should become that other reality. What would poetry otherwise be than indulging in navel-gazing?

Roger Nupie




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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

RECOGNITION

Poetry doesn’t accept to be defined, it wants to be recognized. All of a sudden you are affected by something in a way that you know: this is poetry.


Cécile Coulon



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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

ABANDONING

A poem is never finished; it is only abandoned.


W.H. Auden


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

STONE

Poetry is one stone meeting another one.


Ellen Warmond


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry





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INGREDIENT

No need to worry about poetry’s survival. For poetry is an ingredient of daily life, unnoticed by most, hence not affected too much.


Clem Schouwenaars
From: Het huis op de heuvel



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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry





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RADIUM

Writing poetry is the same as obtaining radium.
Efforts: one year. Proceeds: one gram.
In order to invent just one word,
One uses up thousands of tons of waste or sludge.


Vladimir Majakovski



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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

DEFINITION

One can't catch poetry in a definition, no matter how strong or how profound it is, poetry is always somewhere else.

Yves Namur



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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

FUDDLE

A poem is born at a moment of intense concentration, a kind of fuddle.

Piet Gerbrandy



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

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DESIGN

The poet, like the painter harmonizes what seems to the vegetative eye irreconcilable aspects of the world, into a great design, a great balance.

William Blake



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

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TEACHING

As poetry becomes “sadly peripheral,” hundreds and hundreds of jobs for poets open up…. In numerous ways, these many jobs for “poetry-writing teachers” conceal from our poets themselves the situation we find ourselves in…. Instead of readers we have undiscerning and potentially idolatrous undergraduates; each campus is like a little kingdom..

Brad Leithauser




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

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CONTRIBUTION

A good poem is a contribution to reality. The world is never the same, once a good poem has been added to it. A good poem helps to change the shape and significance of the universe, helps to extend everyone's knowledge of himself and the world around him..

Dylan Thomas




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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


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SEDIMENT

The real poet is a creator, he himself produces what we call the poetic, which he doesn’t express in the poem, but writes right through the poem. So, the poem is not the sediment of a poetic experience, but the poetic experience is the poem’s result.

Nic van Bruggen
From: 'Portret van een jonge man als een dichter', De Periscoop, jrg. XII, no. 9-10, 1962.
Sent by Bert Bevers




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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

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