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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Nachmittag mit Zirkus und Zitadelle (1961)

Paul Celan

Vruntschap (1575)

Jan van Hout

Misterio

Jorge Eduardo Eielson

De Profundis

Frederico Garcia Lorca

El Ápice (1981)

Jorge Luis Borges

Gronmama (ca. 1953)

Trefossa

Met licht schrijven (1993)

Arie Visser

Das ist die Sehnsucht (1897)

Rainer Maria Rilke

Ode to Joy (1991)

Chris Abani

Wahrlich (1964)

Ingeborg Bachmann

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