Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not …

Vincent Van Gogh
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Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ✨ Vincent van Gogh (1958). Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence
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We are surrounded by poetry on all sides. ✨ Vincent van Gogh (2014). Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated), p.1893, Delphi Classics
Do you know what makes the prison disappear? Every deep, genuine affection. Being friends, being brothers, loving, that is what opens the prison, with supreme power, by some magic force. Without thes … ▶
What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything? ✨ Vincent van Gogh, Vincent Willem Gogh (1927). The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh to His Brother, 1872-1886: With a Memoir by His Sister-in- … ▶
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How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what can it be? ✨ Vincent van Gogh (1971). Van Gogh's diary; the artist's life in his own words and art

Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it. ✨ Vincent van Gogh (1958). Complete letters: with reproductions of all the drawings in the correspondence

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