Wednesday, May 3, 2023

DOMINION


A poem is not a deposit of feelings, but a begetter of emotion. As such the committed poem belongs to the domain of applied arts and not, of course, to the dominion of poetry.



Henri-Floris Jespers
From: Het bed van Procrustes, publisher Walter Soethoudt, Antwerp, 1978
Sent by Bert Bevers





www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry





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