Hugo Claus — Belgian Novelist born on April 05, 1929,

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... (wikipedia)

In spring they lie flat at the first warmth, they ruin my summer and in autumn they smell of women.
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.
My verses stand gawping a bit. I never get used to this. They've lived here long enough.