She was like a crinkled poppy; with the desire to drink dry dust. Auteur: Virginia Woolf Copy Quote More from Virginia Woolf “It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality” “Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence.” “I took the print of life not outwardly, but inwardly upon the raw, the white, t…” “The impetuous creature--a pirate--started forward, sprang away; she had to hold…”