DOMINION

A poem is not a deposit of feelings, but a begetter of emotion. As such the committed poem belongs to the domain of applied arts and not, of course, to the dominion of poetry.



Henri-Floris Jespers
From: Het bed van Procrustes, publisher Walter Soethoudt, Antwerp, 1978
Sent by Bert Bevers





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

DISTILLATION

Poetry is language at its most distilled and most powerful.



Rita Dove





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

AUTOMOTIVE

Poetry means for the language what the Le Mans 24 hours event means for the automotive industry.



Erwin Vogels





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

TOMB

Without poetry language would be a tomb.



Antoon van den Braembussche





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

SHELF

Poetry has a much longer 'shelf life'. Prose, and especially contemporary 'pop' prose, has a much shorter life span, is more tendentious and therefore more volatile.



Marc Kerkhofs





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

TREE

If poetry comes not as naturally as the leaves to a tree it had better not come at all.



John Keats





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

FATE

The happiness and unhappiness of a poet depends on his personal life, his goals and also his possibilities “to grab the bull by the horns”, after all happiness is the horns of a cow, shake it hard, hold it so that it does not slip away.



Hannie Rouweler





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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry