Albert Vroomen

“As far as I am concerned, poetry is a statement concerning the human condition, composed in verse.”
― N. Scott Momaday

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”
― Virginia Woolf

“So we must work at our profession and not make anybody else's idleness an excuse for our own. There is no lack of readers and listeners; it is for us to produce something worth being written and heard.”
― Pliny the Younger, The Letters of the Younger Pliny

“Any idiot can face a crisis; it's this day-to-day living that wears you out.”
― Anton Chekhov