Virginia Woolf Quotes — Page 27

Novelist

Creative

“Women have sat indoors all these millions of years, so that by this time the very walls are permeated by their creative force, which has, indeed, so overcharged the capacity of bricks and mortar that it must needs harness itself to pens and brushes and business and politics.”

Years Wall Bricks And Mortar

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Novelist

Sad

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

Practice Flower Rose

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Wise

“One must learn to be silent just as one must learn to talk.”

Silence Silent

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Determined

“The habit of writing for my eye is good practice. It loosens the ligaments.”

Writing Eye

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Grateful

“Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.”

Writing Poetry Is Prose And Poetry

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Philosophical

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

Lying Semblance

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Adventurous

“The streets of London have their map, but our passions are uncharted. What are you going to meet if you turn this corner?”

Passion London Maps

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Melancholic

“Of the rest some we know to be dead though they walk among us; some are not yet born though they go through the forms of life; others are hundreds of years old though they call themselves thirty-six.”

Years Form Six

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Love

“A woman knows very well that, though a wit sends her his poems, praises her judgment, solicits her criticism, and drinks her tea, this by no means signifies that he respects her opinions, admires her understanding, or will refuse, though the rapier is denied him, to run through the body with his pen.”

Mean Running Women

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Creative

“...she took her hand and raised her brush. For a moment it stayed trembling in a painful but exciting ecstacy in the air. Where to begin?--that was the question at what point to make the first mark? One line placed on the canvas committed her to innumerable risks, to frequent and irrevocable decisions. All that in idea seemed simple became in practice immediately complex; as the waves shape themselves symmetrically from the cliff top, but to the swimmer among them are divided by steep gulfs, and foaming crests. Still the risk must run; the mark made.”

Running Simple Air

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Philosophical

“Methinks the human method of expression by sound of tongue is very elementary, and ought to be substituted for some ingenious invention which should be able to give vent to at least six coherent sentences at once.”

Giving Sound Expression

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Philosophical

“The strange thing about life is that though the nature of it must have been apparent to every one for hundreds of years, no one has left any adequate account of it.”

Years Strange Adequate

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