EXPERTISE

Everything requires expertise: profession, politics, education, even love. But there is an audience that turns away disturbed or conceited when a poem cannot be read and understood at first glance. For these people, poetry must be as flat as their own souls.

Adriaan Morriën




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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

CELL

The form in poetry is not a cell or an ornament: it simply is the right and colourful, visible appearance.

Vicente Aleixandre




www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

LABYRINTH

Poetry. What to me is a system, a world palace, a hierarchy, a labyrinth in which I know my way, must for most people be nothing more than a random sound, fibres of a strange world.

Cees Nooteboom, in 'De danser en de monnik'




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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

INDIVIDUAL

A poem always says something different from what the individual parts actually want to say.

Wim Wenders, during an interview about 'Der Himmel über Berlin'




www.alberthagenaars.nl


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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry