"Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it."
— Vincent van Gogh

January 1, 1970

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Quote in his letter tot Theo, from The Hague, Sunday, 18 March 1883; as cited in The Complete Letters of Vincent Van Gogh, Vol. 2 (1958) New York Graphic Society, p. 12