Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Quote by Virginia Woolf
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Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
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Virginia Woolf Quotes
- Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.
- Really I don't like human nature unless all candied over with art.
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
- If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.
- If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?
- The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
- Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the figure of man at twice its natural size.
- The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.
- It seems as if an age of genius must be succeeded by an age of endeavour riot and extravagance by cleanliness and hard work.
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
Best Quotes
- It's sad, actually, because my anxiety keeps me from enjoying things as much as I should at this age.
- Pray thee, spare, thyself at times: for it becomes a wise man sometimes to relax the high pressure of his attention to work.
- If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
- I experience a period of frightening clarity in those moments when nature is so beautiful. I am no longer sure of myself, and the paintings appear as in a dream.
- Freedom is fragile and must be protected. To sacrifice it, even as a temporary measure, is to betray it.
- Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.
- I spend a lot of time reading.
- We pardon to the extent that we love.
- Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
- There's something about music that encourages people to want to know more about the person that made it, and where it was recorded, what year it was done, what they were listening to, and all this kind of stuff. There's something that invites all this obsessive behavior.