IDLENESS

Pre-eminently, poetry is possessing the discipline to do nothing at all, to cultivate the right to idleness.

Leonard Nolens



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SERENITY

There is a time to sing, a time to dance
and a time to accomplish one’s life in pure
serenity and peace.

Robert-Edward Hart, 1937.



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NOSE

Poets have a good nose for those things that don't exist yet.

Philippe Cailliau



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KRAKOW

It's easy to mobilize four hundred people for a poetry night here. Krakow is in many respects a lyrical city.

Adam Zagajewski



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LINGUISTICS

Many contemporary poets think poetry is a linguistic game. For me it is -other than philosophy but with the same power- a way to deal with the main questions.

Adam Zagajewski



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LOOKING

Poetry can teach you to look well, to see better, to realize, to see through.

Lambert Wierenga



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OPENESS

The openess of poems, their ambiguity and complexity must be protected. If you try to explain the poem, you frame it. You fixate. Why would you do that?

Mustafa Stitou



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