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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¿Ves, con el oro?

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

On death (1814)

John Keats

Was there a time (1936)

Dylan Thomas

Eb (1954)

M. Vasalis

O, arbeid (1933)

Marinus van der Lubbe

Jagadada (1923)

Antony Kok

Zet het blauw (1961)

Willem Hussem

Idurar n-arrif (ca. 1985)

Elwalid Mimoun

Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle (1961)

Paul Celan

Vlieger (2) (ca. 1993)

Kees Buurman

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