SHELF

Poetry has a much longer 'shelf life'. Prose, and especially contemporary 'pop' prose, has a much shorter life span, is more tendentious and therefore more volatile.



Marc Kerkhofs





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

TREE

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.



John Keats





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

FATE

The happiness and unhappiness of a poet depends on his personal life, his goals and also his possibilities “to grab the bull by the horns”, after all happiness is the horns of a cow, shake it hard, hold it so that it does not slip away.



Hannie Rouweler





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

EGG

language is an egg.
poetry: the chick within.
(prose: sunny side up).



Harry Mulisch





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

LEAF

Writing poetry is producing a single leaf of all the woods on earth, producing a single ear of corn of all the grain fields on earth.


Herman van den Bergh





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

HOSPITAL

Philosophy is the hospital of poetry.


Novalis





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

MEMORY

Memory is poetry and poetry is nothing but memory.


Giovanni Pascoli





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

PRINCIPLE

Since the age of fifteen poetry has been my ruling passion and I have never intentionally undertaken any task or formed any relationship that seemed inconsistent with poetic principles; which has sometimes won me the reputation of an eccentric..


Robert Graves





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

STREETLIGHT

Poetry is the shadow cast by our streetlight imaginations.


Lawrence Ferlinghetti





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

SEMINAR

I’m a great believer in poetry out of the classroom, in public places, on subways, trains, on cocktail napkins. I’d rather have my poems on the subway than around the seminar table at an MFA program.


Billy Collins




www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

CRITIC (2)

You do not become a critic until it has been completely established to your own satisfaction that you cannot be a poet.


Théophile Gautier





Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.


Théophile Gautier





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry