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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