13 Quotes by Hugo Claus

My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They’ve lived here long enough.

We gaan zien. Wij gaan zien. Toch.

Hoerenpraat natuurlijk, maar toch lief.

A twice-reflected sunlight is spreading over the wall opposite me: it is first picked up and reflected by the oval glass-in-lead window embedded in the wall, then reflected again by the zinc in slats of the awning next to it. It has no meaning; it’s just a concatenation of circumstances, and yet it thrills me.