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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Kawa mata wa Shu (1966)

Seiichi Niikuni

Ode I.XIV (ca. 28 voor Chr.)

Horatius

Wij zullen het leven (1950)

Hans Lodeizen

Leningrad (1930)

Osip Mandelstam

Verlaine (1938)

J.C. Bloem

Als paarden sterven (1912)

Velimir Chlebnikov

Vlieger (2) (ca. 1993)

Kees Buurman

De aarde danst op haar wolken (2004)

Hugo Claus

Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle (1961)

Paul Celan

Mobile

Paul van Ostaijen

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