MECHANISM

A poem is a mechanism consisting of signs, sounds, images and symbols, which turns into an organism getting hold of you as soon as you recognize the beauty, truth and enigma's that are already in you.

Albert Hagenaars


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FOE

I want to reach everybody with my poetry. Poetry doesn't know friend or foe.

Rendra


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EXPLORER

The poet shouldn't try to become well-known or popular. It's best he keeps his poems in the dark, waiting to be discovered by explorers.

Daam Noppe


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PLANT

Poetry is like a plant which is detached from its cause and creator, a natural organism, a flower.

D.A.M. Binnendijk


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CALLIGRAPHY

The poet and the calligrapher find each other in the respect they demand for the word, for the letter, for the thin line of letter and character. Therefore alone the publication of a poetry collection may be called a therapeutic moment.

Jef Lambrecht


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LOSING

I don't lose if I write poetry about losing.

Erik Heyman


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HANDFUL

Is this enough: a handful of poems
to justify a life?

J.C. Bloem


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