In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
Quote by Hugo Claus about literature, autumn, spring, lie
Quotes by Hugo Claus (Dorothea van Male)
3 quotes by Hugo Claus (Dorothea van Male)
Hugo Claus (Dorothea van Male) - novelist, poet, playwright, painter and film director
Also known as: Dorothea van Male.
Was born on 05 apr 1929.
Died on 19 mar 2008, at 78 years old.
Died on 19 mar 2008, at 78 years old.
Origin country: Belgium
Go now, verses, on your light feet, you have not trodden hard on the old earth where the graves laugh when they see their guests, the one corpse stacked on top of the other. Go now and stagger to her whom I do not know.
Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry, earth, light, old, olderness
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.
Quote by Hugo Claus about poetry
