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Makes Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- You cannot lecture on really pure poetry any more than you can talk about the ingredients of pure water-it is adulterated, methylated, sanded poetry that…
- It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.
- Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long…
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand…
- To love makes one solitary.
- So I have to create the whole thing afresh for myself each time. Probably all writers now are in the same boat. It is the…
- Well, I’ve had my fun; I’ve had it, he thought, looking up at the swinging baskets of pale geraniums. And it was smashed to atoms—his…
- Romantic Love is only an Illusion. A story one makes up in One's Mind about Another Person.
- Rhoda comes now, having slipped in while we were not looking. She must have made a tortuous course, taking cover now behind a waiter, now…
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