Virginia Woolf Quotes, Country Quotes, Air Quotes

... why do people who live in the country always give themselves such airs?

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Country Quotes , Air Quotes

After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Lovely Quotes

You cannot find peace by avoiding life.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Life Quotes , Meaningful Quotes

London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Moving Quotes , Play Quotes

I must try to set aside half an hour in some part of my day, and consecrate it to diary writing. Give it a name and a place, and then perhaps, such is the human mind, I shall come to think it a duty, and disregard other duties for it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Writing Quotes , Thinking Quotes

The hatchet must fall on the block; the oak must be cleft to the centre. The weight of the world is on my shoulders. Here is the pen and the paper; on the letters in the wire basket I sign my name, I, I, and again I.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Block Quotes , Fall Quotes

Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Simple Quotes , Style Quotes

I ride rough waters, and shall sink with no one to save me.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Water Quotes , Save Me Quotes

Love and religion! thought Clarissa, going back into the drawing room, tingling all over. How detestable, how detestable they are!

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Drawing Quotes

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Fall Quotes , Toss Quotes

It is only by putting it into words that I make it whole. This wholeness means that it has lost its power to hurt me; it gives me, perhaps because by doing so I take away the pain, a great delight to put the severed parts together

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Hurt Quotes , Pain Quotes

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Women Quotes , Diversity Quotes

I am not so gifted as at one time seemed likely.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Gifted Quotes

Someone has to die in order that the rest of us should value life more.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Life Quotes , Order Quotes

Only longing can fill with more of itself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Chaos Quotes

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mould of the body and mind entire.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Essence Quotes , Giving Quotes

I am reading Henry James...and feel myself as one entombed in a block of smooth amber.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Block Quotes , Reading Quotes

By hook or by crook, I hope that you will possess yourselves of money enough to travel and to idle, to contemplate the future or the past of the world, to dream over books and loiter at street corners and let the line of thought dip deep into the stream

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Dream Quotes , Travel Quotes

What I like, or one of the things I like, about motoring is the sense it gives one of lighting accidentally, like a voyager who touches another planet with the tip of his toe, upon scenes which would have gone on, have always gone on, will go on, unrecorded, save for this chance glimpse. Then it seems to me I am allowed to see the heart of the world uncovered for a moment.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Heart Quotes , Giving Quotes

It would have been impossible, completely and entirely, for any woman to have written the plays of Shakespeare in the age of Shakespeare.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : Virginia Woolf Quotes , Play Quotes , Age Quotes