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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Eb (1954)

M. Vasalis

Feuille ouverte (2015)

Pierre Reverdy

Maaie op it iis (1882)

Pieter Jelles Troelstra

Pisalem

Tadeusz Rózewicz

For my poems (1913)

Marina Ivanovna Tsvetajeva

Kleine ode aan het water (1931)

Gerrit Achterberg

The rough sea (1689)

Matsuo Bashō

Die kind (1960)

Ingrid Jonker

Art rythmé; tic (1922)

Robert Desnos

Omeros

Derek Walcott

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