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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Een schatrijke tuin (1939)

Hendrik de Vries

De Profundis

Frederico Garcia Lorca

Krimmena (1908)

Constantine P. Cavafy

Zonder titel (1990)

Bernlef

¿Ves, con el oro?

Francisco Gómez de Quevedo y Villegas

Pochwala zlego o sobie mniemania (1976)

Wislawa Szymborska

Untitled (1974)

Jan Arends

À son âme (1585)

Pierre de Ronsard

Als een poolwinter...

Jabra Ibrahim Jabra

Omeros

Derek Walcott

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