EARTH (4)

A poem / that understands itself and purely / encompasses itself like a figure of speech / with a ball and with air // and then takes flight because / of so little earth—I gladly / let it ascend to heaven. By preference // including the poet himself.

Frank Pollet





The poet's word is the entire world. Not the tangible earth, not the fluid water, but the earth inside the earth and the water that makes the water fluid.


Paul Snoek





Writing poetry is producing a single leaf of all the woods on earth, producing a single ear of corn of all the grain fields on earth.


Herman van den Bergh





Poetry is an animal, a combination / of the softest animals on earth.


Ben Cami





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INTUITION

What turns a verse into a poem is precisely the sense of inner necessity with which intuition unfolds, in sharp contrast to the deliberate intent with which one undertakes an experiment.


Hendrik de Vries


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TECHNOLOGY

Technique can be just as poetic as poetry is technical.


Albert Hagenaars (inspired by Frans van Tilborg)


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DICHTER

'Dichter', the German word for poet, is often an honorific title. It can be given to a writer who has written nothing but prose and no verse at all.


James Reidel


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MUSSET

Musset is more a poet than an artist, and right now more a human than a poet – and a miserable human at that. Musset never separated art from the sensations of which it is the complement. In his view, music was made for serenades, painting for portraits, and poetry to comfort hearts. When you try to stuff the sun in your pants like that, you burn your pants and pee on the sun. And that's what happened to him.


Gustave Flaubert


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VOICE

Being a poet for Maurice Gilliams means carrying a fate and passing it on. Because the poet is, for now, defeated, but keeps going on because he hears ‘the voice,' which guarantees him that he will win.


Paul De Vree


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LIGHT

I wanted to strike the brightest light out of the language – because deep in the heart of the language lives a white light.


Herman Gorter


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