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Thinking about Holland,
I see broad rivers
moving slowly through
endless lowlands.
rows of unthi...
poem by Hendrik Marsman
I wanted to go fishing one day,
I felt a little despondent.
I made between the cat\'s tails
with...
poem by Martinus Nijhoff
Rebel. my heart, jailed and enslaved,
that on the trellis of the mundane pulls;
do not feel pressu...
poem by Jan Campert
In a few days
it shall belong to the past.
in order to forget
I'll give myself
to the warm glow
...
poem by Hendrik Marsman
With blue-paper arrows on my cheeks
And a yellow star stuck to my head,
I stay, as a monkey takes ...
poem by Martinus Nijhoff
The gate never opens. The window’s so high
That at first panoramas to her appear:
Rivers, blue a...
poem by J.Slauerhoff
My lonely life wanders in the streets,
Along the countryside or the walls of the room.
No blood fl...
poem by Martinus Nijhoff
When young Ascanius, by the Queen of Love,
Was born to sweet Cythera's lofty grove,
His languid li...
poem by Johannes Secundus
Love letters surpass a lover who’s gone.
Once the letters have arrived, it’s quite enough:
For...
poem by J.Slauerhoff
I walk through the polderland
beneath the slanting rain;
unending is this land,
unending are the ...
poem by Hendrik Marsman
They're read and read repeatedly,
Though readers sensed already what was there,
Woven of one cloth...
poem by J.Slauerhoff
The moon makes a snowwhite field of the night.
a man has told a friend all about his life:

a mir...
poem by Hendrik Marsman
No death manifests in the number
that connected the two of us.
Nothing is in the apparatus
other ...
poem by Gerrit Achterberg
Don't accuse me of being frivolous just
because I have loved without trust
and have departed witho...
poem by Martinus Nijhoff
Choose only one master - Nature....
quote by Rembrandt
Against the sounding board of the night
your words still move.
Everything that you have said
rema...
poem by Gerrit Achterberg
Child of the Unborn! dost thou bend
From Him we in the day-beams see,
Whose music with the breeze ...
poem by Willem Bilderdijk
As round some neighbouring elm the vine
Its am'rous tendrils loves to twine;
As round the oak, in ...
poem by Johannes Secundus
4 is squarely masculine
and 3 round and feminine
9 is distant and out-of-sight
of 6 more of the l...
poem by Gerrit Achterberg
The twilight falls like ground.
In Holland walks a hound.
A hound with very long teeth.
He goes t...
poem by Gerrit Achterberg
Thinking of Holland
I see broad rivers
move slowly through
un-ending lowlands....
quote by Hendrik Marsman
Tonight I have walked with you
along the deaf lanes of sleep,
and now that it is morning
nothing ...
poem by Gerrit Achterberg
Words going backwards
are on their way to you:
so that you may hear
your ears are gone.

Senten...
poem by Gerrit Achterberg
I dream of painting and then I paint my dream....
quote by Vincent Van Gogh
Without atmosphere a painting is nothing....
quote by Rembrandt
Poesy, nay! Too long art silent!
Seize now the lute! Why dost thou tarry?
Let sword the Universe i...
poem by Willem Bilderdijk
Every true artist has been inspired more by the beauty of lines and color and the relationships betw...
quote by Piet Mondrian
The emotion of beauty is always obscured by the appearance of the object. Therefore the object must ...
quote by Piet Mondrian
To approach the spiritual in art, one will make as little use as possible of reality, because realit...
quote by Piet Mondrian
Practice what you know, and it will help to make clear what now you do not know....
quote by Rembrandt
Painting is the grandchild of nature. It is related to God....
quote by Rembrandt

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