Willem Kloos

Dutch poet.

Born May 6th, 1859 in Amsterdam. [ref]

Died March 31st, 1938 at 78 years old in The Hague. [ref]

Occupations
literary critic, poet, writer
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel