VICTOR HUGO

Victor Hugo was a madman who thought he was Victor Hugo.

Jean Cocteau





Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl

IGNORANCE

Poetry is in the streets, in the drains, it's entirely disposed of hierarchy, it doesn't know. It doesn't know anything. It is the song of our ignorance.

Georges Perros





Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl

TO STALK

Don't trust poets who deploy memorandums as stalkers.

Sven de Swerts




Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl

CATHEDRAL

My poem and the cathedral: some resemblance

Guillevic





Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl

DURATION

A poem is the time during which I, as a reader, inhale a law that was prepared; I give my breath and the instruments of my voice; or only their abilities, which coincide with the silence.

Paul Valéry





Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl

OPINION

To have opinions is to sell out to yourself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.

Fernando Pessoa





Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl

LOVER

I'm not a poetry lover; I simply love poetry too much.

Albert Hagenaars





Also see:
Frozen Poets - Sculptures, graves and other traces of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry


www.alberthagenaars.nl
To have opinions is to sell out to youself. To have no opinions is to exist. To have every opinion is to be a poet.