GRIM

The world has become grim these days. On almost every level. Yet poetry is still very much alive. It will survive as long as we breathe and words find the strength to denounce or embrace the spirit of the times, to express it profoundly, and thereby to transcend it.

Antoon Van den Braembussche




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

RETURNING

In a certain sense, every difficult poem is an intellectual investment. What derails in your soul today may return tomorrow as understanding.

Gerrit Krol




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

INTELLIGENCE

Poets are the sense, philosophers the intelligence of humanity.

Samuel Beckett




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

OVERFLOW

Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.

William Wordsworth




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

GEOMETRY

Everything you invent is true: you can be sure of that. Poetry is a subject as precise as geometry.

Julian Barnes




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

EFFORT

Poetry is like radium; to obtain a gram, it takes years of effort.

Vladimir Vladimirovich Mayakovsky




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry

TO OBSERVE

Poetry for me is a matter of observing, and although the non-recognition of two identical objects remains a utopia, somewhere there lies the starting point of what I now call originality: a matter of forgetting, almost.

J. Bernlef




www.alberthagenaars.nl


Also see:
Frozen poets - Statues, tombs and other traces of hundreds of poets

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

Critical reviews on modern Dutch poetry