Famous quotes containing the words van and/or wrote:
“A classic is a book that doesn’t have to be written again.”
—Carl Van Doren (1885–1950)
“GOETHE, raised o’er joy and strife,
Drew the firm lines of Fate and Life,
And brought Olympian wisdom down
To court and mar, to gown and town,
Stooping, his finger wrote in clay
The open secret of to-day.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)