Over 120 poems can be found on the walls of Leiden, in a wide range of languages and scripts. On this website, you can read and listen to them. You can also find translations, background information, bike and walking routes and personal stories.

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Muza (1924)

Anna Achmatova

Loin du pigeonnier (1925)

Guillaume Apollinaire

Gelincikler

Fakir Baykurt

Kawa mata wa Shu (1966)

Seiichi Niikuni

De aarde danst op haar wolken (2004)

Hugo Claus

Zonder titel (901)

Sugawara no Michizane

Papel (1973)

Carlos Drummond de Andrade

Danse Africaine (1922)

Langston Hughes

Met licht schrijven (1993)

Arie Visser

Zonder titel

Luís Vaz de Camões

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