Famous quotes containing the words van and/or wrote:
“Dont you hear his cannons roar?
Well be Orangemen no more
Says the Shan Van Vocht.”
—Unknown. The Shan Van Vocht (l. 1012)
“Lermontov died at age twenty-eight and wrote more than have you and I put together. Talent is recognizable not only by quality, but also by the quantity it yields.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (18601904)