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Words Quotes by Virginia Woolf
- Thoughts without words… Can that be?
- Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words.
- We are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself.
- Use words that soak up life.
- I need a little language such as lovers use, words of one syllable such as children speak when they come into the room and find…
- 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;…
- The word-coining genius, as if thought plunged into a sea of words and came up dripping.
- In illness words seem to possess a mystic quality.
- The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from the loudspeakers and the politicians. Every day they tell us that…
- One ought to sink to the bottom of the sea, probably, and live alone with one's words.
- We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new…
- 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…
- To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry can adulterate and…
- I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run…
- When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness—I am nothing.
- Behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we—I mean all human beings—are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of…
- 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…
- 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…
- Ransack the language as he might, words failed him. He wanted another landscape, and another tongue.
- I begin to long for some little language such as lovers use, broken words, inarticulate words, like the shuffling of feet on pavement.
- No, she thought, one could say nothing to nobody. The urgency of the moment always missed its mark. Words fluttered sideways and struck the object…
- This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw…
- For pain words are lacking. There should be cries, cracks, fissures, whiteness passing over chintz covers, interference with the sense of time, of space ;…
- I am tied down with single words. But you wander off; you slip away; you rise up higher, with words and words in phrases.
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- Nothing we use or hear or touch can be expressed in words that equal what is given by the senses. — Hannah Arendt
- I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less OK, then… — Paul Auster
- Preach the Gospel at all times and when necessary use words. — Francis of Assisi
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- The words of a dead man are modified in the guts of the living. — Wystan Hugh Auden
- The words printed here are concepts. You must go through the experiences. — Saint Augustine
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