Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves
Virginia Woolf...but after reading a chapter or two a shadow seemed to lie across the page. It was a straight dark bar, a shadow shaped something like the letter 'I.' One began dodging this way and that to catch a glimpse of the landscape behind it. Whether that was indeed a tree or a woman walking I was not quite sure. Back one was always hailed to the letter 'I.
Virginia WoolfReally I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art
Virginia WoolfI can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: beauty history memory emotion recollection
I have lost friends, some by death...others by sheer inability to cross the street.
Virginia WoolfThat perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.
Virginia WoolfLock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: women writing freedom
She read everything.
Virginia Woolf...(for the setting of her beauty was always that - hasty, but apt)...
Virginia WoolfStichwörter: to-the-lighthouse
Illness is a part of every human being's experience. It enhances our perceptions and reduces self-consciousness. It is the great confessional; things are said, truths are blurted out which health conceals.
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