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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Charles Parker, 1920-1955 (ca. 1956)

William Waring Cuney

Wahrlich (1964)

Ingeborg Bachmann

Maskoke Okisce (ca. 1985)

Wotkoce Okisce

Das ist die Sehnsucht (1897)

Rainer Maria Rilke

De schoolverlater (2000)

Gerrit Komrij

O, arbeid (1933)

Marinus van der Lubbe

Non chiederci (1925)

Eugenio Montale

À une passante (1857)

Charles Baudelaire

Sonnet XXX (ca. 1593)

William Shakespeare

Met licht schrijven (1993)

Arie Visser

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