Jan Greshoff:
(Nieuw-Helvoet, 15 December 1888 – Cape Town, 19 March 1971).
Dutch journalist and writer who became best known as a poet and critic.
Greshoff worked as a journalist from 1908, including at the Dagblad van Zuid-Holland and ‘s-Gravenhage and for weekly De Hofstad. From 1916, he worked on the arts editorial of De Telegraaf. From 1920 to 1923, he was editor-in-chief of the Nieuwe Arnhemsche Courant. After that, he started working as a freelancer. In his younger years, he made many trips abroad, mainly in Europe and North Africa, where he made contacts with artists, writers and publishers, such as Emile Verhaeren and Gaston Gallimard. From 1927 to 1939, he stayed in Brussels, as cultural correspondent of the Nieuwe Rotterdamsche Courant and Het Vaderland. As a contributor, he was also involved with the magazine Forum. In 1936, he was one of the founders of the Comité van Waakzaamheid, which warned against national socialism.
No matter how fast the newspaper is, the truth will catch up with it.
Love is a friendship, noble and strong enough to survive the intersleep.
To love means to give love, what we receive we take into the bargain.
Marriage for love usually fails. A marriage out of friendship has a chance of success.
I don’t like greatness, because I like the truth.
Many friends make friendship thin.
