SEDIMENT

The real poet is a creator, he himself produces what we call the poetic, which he doesn’t express in the poem, but writes right through the poem. So, the poem is not the sediment of a poetic experience, but the poetic experience is the poem’s result.

Nic van Bruggen
From: 'Portret van een jonge man als een dichter', De Periscoop, jrg. XII, no. 9-10, 1962.
Sent by Bert Bevers




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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

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