Simon Carmiggelt

Simon Johannes Carmiggelt: (The Hague, 7 October 1913 – Amsterdam, 30 November 1987). Dutch journalist, writer and poet. Under the pseudonym Kronkel, he published an almost daily italic in daily newspaper Het Parool for almost forty years, describing ordinary things in surprising ways, with an eye for humour in the difference between ideal and reality.… Lees verder Simon Carmiggelt

Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Jalāl al-Dīn Muḥammad Rūmī: Or simply Rumi (30 September 1207 – 17 December 1273) 13th-century Persian poet, Hanafi faqih (jurist), Islamic scholar, Maturidi theologian (mutakallim),[9] and Sufi mystic originally from Greater Khorasan in Greater Iran. I choose to love you in silence….For in silence I find no rejection. My soul is from elsewhere, I’m sure… Lees verder Mawlana Jalal-al-Din Rumi

Gerrit Komrij

Happiness is a second that wants to be eternity. As I write, I am not interested in the truth. My only concern is that the last sentence kind of fits with the penultimate one. The less you have to offer, the more beautiful you make the packaging.