Top 4 Quotes & Sayings by Hugo Claus

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Belgian writer Hugo Claus.

Last updated on December 22, 2024.

Hugo Maurice Julien Claus was a leading Belgian author who published under his own name as well as various pseudonyms. Claus' literary contributions spanned the genres of drama, the novel, and poetry; he also left a legacy as a painter and film director. He wrote primarily in Dutch, although he also wrote some poetry in English. He won the 2000 International Nonino Prize in Italy.

Belgian - Writer | Born: April 5, 1929

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In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.

Hugo Claus

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.

Hugo Claus

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

Hugo Claus

We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things.

Hugo Claus