Holland is a land of intense paradox. It is quite impossible, but it is there. M E W Sherwood
Holland is a dream, Monsieur, a dream of gold and smoke – smokier by day, more gilded by night. Albert Camus
In Holland, everyone is an expert in painting and in tulips. Albert Camus
People, houses, streets, animals, flowers – everything in Holland looks as if it were washed and ironed each night in order to glisten immaculately and newly starched the next morning. Felix Marti-Ibáñez
Thinking of Holland
I see broad rivers
move slowly through
un-ending lowlands.
Hendrik Marsman