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Virginia Woolf quotes

British Author, Composer, Writer January 25, 1882 – March 28, 1941

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Tell me", he wanted to say, "everything in the whole world" - for he had the wildest, most absurd, extravagant ideas about poets and poetry - but how to speak to a man who does not see you? who sees ogres, satyrs, perhaps the depth of the sea instead? Virginia Woolf
Outside the trees dragged their leaves like nets through the depths of the air; the sound of water was in the room and through the waves came the voices of birds singing. Virginia Woolf
They know what to say if spoken to. They laugh really; they get angry really; while I have to look first and then do what other people do when they have done it. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip..."
I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here,..."
From room to room they went, hand in hand, lifting here, opening there, making sure - a ghostly couple. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I..."
When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing. Virginia Woolf
But this was one way of knowing people, she thought: to know the outline, not the detail, to sit in one's garden and look at the slopes of a hill running purple down into the distant heather. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe..."
Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order. Virginia Woolf
Yet there are moments when the walls of the mind grow thin; when nothing is unabsorbed, and I could fancy that we might blow so vast a bubble that the sun might set and rise in it and we might take the blue of midday and the black of midnight and be cast off and escape from here and now. Virginia Woolf
Youth, youth- something savage- something pedantic. For example there is Mr. Masefield, there is Mr. Bennett. Stuff them into the flame of Marlowe and burn them to cinders. Let not a shred remain. Don't palter with the second rate. Detest your own age. Build a better one. Virginia Woolf
He lay on his chair with his hands clasped above his paunch not reading, or sleeping, but basking like a creature gorged with existence. Virginia Woolf
for it was not knowledge but unity that she desired, not inscriptions on tablets, nothing that could be written in any language known to men, but intimacy itself, which is knowledge Virginia Woolf
All you need now is to stand at the window and let your rhythmical sense open and shut, open and shut, boldly and freely, until one thing melts in another, until the taxis are dancing with the daffodils, until a whole has been made from all these separate fragments. Virginia Woolf
I like books whose virtue is all drawn together in a page or two. I like sentences that don't budge though armies cross them. Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf quote: "There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to..."
There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, 'Consume me'. Virginia Woolf

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