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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Nacht (1912)

Aleksandr Blok

À une passante (1857)

Charles Baudelaire

Sonnet XXX (ca. 1593)

William Shakespeare

La pluja (1952)

Salvador Espriu

The Man in the Panther's Skin

Sjota Roestaveli

Zang Tumb Tumb (1912)

Filippo Marinetti

O, arbeid (1933)

Marinus van der Lubbe

Natur und Kunst (1802)

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

De dichter is een gedicht (1977)

Jotie T'Hooft

Idurar n-arrif (ca. 1985)

Elwalid Mimoun

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