NOSE

Poets have a good nose for those things that don't exist yet.

Philippe Cailliau



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KRAKOW

It's easy to mobilize four hundred people for a poetry night here. Krakow is in many respects a lyrical city.

Adam Zagajewski



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LINGUISTICS

Many contemporary poets think poetry is a linguistic game. For me it is -other than philosophy but with the same power- a way to deal with the main questions.

Adam Zagajewski



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LOOKING

Poetry can teach you to look well, to see better, to realize, to see through.

Lambert Wierenga



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OPENESS

The openess of poems, their ambiguity and complexity must be protected. If you try to explain the poem, you frame it. You fixate. Why would you do that?

Mustafa Stitou



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FLOWER (2)

The poet knows that he speaks adequately then only when he speaks somewhat wordly or with the flower of the mind.

Ralph Waldo Emerson



With a few flowers in my garden, half a dozen pictures and some poetry books, I live without envy.

Lope de Vega



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BALANCE

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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