"We cannot accept the world as it is. Each day we should wake up foaming at the mouth because of the injustice of things."
"My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough."
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Source: Hugo Claus (2009). “Wonder”
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"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."