Home » Quote » Vincent Van Gogh » „Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.“ „Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.“ — Vincent Van Gogh Related quotes „Money is everywhere but so is poetry. What we lack are the poets.“ — Federico Fellini „We are surrounded by poetry on all sides…“ — Vincent Van Gogh „Lord Byron, who was writing the third canto of Childe Harold, was the only one among us who put his thoughts upon paper. These, as he brought them successively to us, clothed in all the light and harmony of poetry, seemed to stamp as divine the glories of heaven and earth, whose influences we partook with him.“ — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley „Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.“ — Maya Angelou „Nathaniel Hawthorne says, “Easy reading is damn hard writing.” I try to pull the language into such a sharpness that it jumps off the page. It must look easy, but it takes me forever to get it to look so easy.“ — Maya Angelou „In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.“ — Ralph Waldo Emerson
„Poetry surrounds us everywhere, but putting it on paper is, alas, not so easy as looking at it.“ — Vincent Van Gogh