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  • What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Voice Quotes
  • How interesting it would be to write the story of the experiences in this life of a man who killed himself in his previous life; how he stumbles against the very demands which had offered themselves before, until he arrives at the realization that he must fulfill those demands. The deeds of the preceding life give direction to the present life.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Leo Tolstoy Quotes , Suicide Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • The meaning and purpose of dancing is the dance. Like music also, it is fulfilled in each moment of its course. You do not play a sonata in order to reach the final chord, and if the meaning of things were simply in ends, composers would write nothing but finales.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Alan Watts Quotes , Spiritual Quotes , Writing Quotes
  • And the reason I am so nervous is that everything I do now is leading me to one of three possible futures... Which one will it be? Time alone will tell. But still I know that writing this diary can perhaps provide the answer; it may even help produce the right future.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Adolfo Bioy Casares Quotes , Writing Quotes , Three Quotes