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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