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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Vlieger (2) (ca. 1993)

Kees Buurman

Het kind en ik (1933)

Martinus Nijhoff

Aku (1943)

Chairil Anwar

Eenmaal (ca. 600 voor Christus)

Sappho

Gelincikler

Fakir Baykurt

Loin du pigeonnier (1925)

Guillaume Apollinaire

Zang Tumb Tumb (1912)

Filippo Marinetti

Kawa mata wa Shu (1966)

Seiichi Niikuni

Riposte (1917)

William Carlos Williams

Leningrad (1930)

Osip Mandelstam

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