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detail from the calling of st. matthew, caravaggio; click on the image for more   poetry thanks to wisława szymborska i got interested into poetry at school they tried to get the pupils interested but dutch schools aren't particularly interested in poetry resulting in not much interest by me, something i regretted in later years for instance when i got introduced into arab poetry, i didn't understand the importance, not having been educated to understand this image by mariusz kubik when szymborska was awarded the nobel prize for literature, in 1996, i finally started to understand, thanks to her work, some of the charm of poetry, and this is why i have this section at my website   szymborska the polish poet wisława szymborska (born bnin, kórnik, 1923) introduced me into poetry, more than anything i had learnt at school (see at left) zsymborska lives and works in kraków, since she moved there with her parents in 1931 below some dutch translations from her poetry translations into dutch are by gerard rasch een ui utopia* een kat in een  lege woning* thuiskomst reclamefolder* onverwachtse ontmoeting het schrijven van een cv dankwoord * = also available in polish more on szymborska at wikipedia   dicht erbij the initiative dicht erbij (2007) - dutch word 'erbij' means something like 'have it at hand' and 'dicht' is the verb here as it could be in english: 'to poem', a word that doesn't exist in english, so, something like: create a poem what is meant with dicht erbij is: to have a poem at hand this great initiative was set up by young poets from the netherlands, poetry shown is in dutch the first two links below have poetry by the founder of dicht erbij, the following are by others who have contributed daniël reza sulaiman (1) daniël reza sulaiman (2) esther van dalen bupatih, leo van kuijeren marianne pepels gisele vranckx inge strijker kortland, de jong, vuijk vos, stet, scheele the website dicht erbij is no longer functional