Poetry Quote by Virginia Woolf Download Open image ““Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends. --Bernard, The Waves”” — Virginia Woolf ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bernard Waves Friends Bernard People Priests Poetry Poetry Friends Priests Poetry
“Some people go to priests; others to poetry...I to my own heart, I to seek among phrases and fragments something unbroken.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“I only say that at certain strange epochs it is necessary to have another kind of priests, called poets, actually to remind men that… — G.K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
“But there was heard among the holy hymns A voice as of the waters, for she dwells Down in a deep‐ calm, whatsoever storms… — Alfred Lord Tennyson Copy Share Image
“I had met quite a few priests in my long life, and found that they were, by and large, like anyone else—some generous, some… — Ann Leckie Copy Share Image
“A poet, you see, is a light thing, and winged and holy, and cannot compose before he gets inspiration and loses control of his… — Plato Copy Share Image
“The poet is a shaman of words & sounds, praying linguistically over each while blessing the poetic whole.” — the mag man Copy Share Image
“The Throes of Poetry - Hymns formed from groans of acquaintance, its rhythm weaving between tranquility, compassions, and peril - like bare feet stomping… — Traci Lea LaRussa Copy Share Image
“Does any one know where the love of God goes When the waves turn the minuted to hours” — Gordon Lightfoot Copy Share Image
“We priests are in some ways a sad group of men. Born into the world to render service to mankind, there is no one… — Shūsaku Endō Copy Share Image
“None but a poet can understand a poet; none but a romantic spirit transported with poetry and consecrated in the Holy of Holies an… — E.T.A. Hoffmann Copy Share Image
“The train slows and lengthens, as we approach London, the centre, and my heart draws out too, in fear, in exaltation. I am about… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Across the broad continent of a woman's life falls the shadow of a sword. On one side all is correct, definite, orderly; the paths… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Other worshipful objects were content with worship; men, women, God, all let one kneel prostrate; but this form, were it only the shape of… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Why does Samuel Butler say, 'Wise men never say what they think of women'? Wise men never say anything else apparently. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“Sometimes he woke with a brain like lead; at others it was as if a thousand wax tapers were alight and people were throwing… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The extraordinary woman depends on the ordinary woman. It is only when we know what were the conditions of the average woman's life -… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Love ought to stop on both sides, don’t you think, simultaneously?’ He spoke without any stress on the words, so as not to wake… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“It is so vast an alleviation to be able to point for another to look at. And then not to talk. To follow the… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
“What a vast fertility of pleasure books hold for me! (...) I think I could happily live here & read forever.” — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The name Phenomenal Woman was inspired by Maya Angelo, who wrote 'Phenomenal Woman', a favorite poem of mine. — Meena Harris Copy Share Image
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose; the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry. — David Hare Copy Share Image
“It took me years to learn to sit at my desk for more than two minutes at a time, to put up with the… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
The word 'mundane' has come to mean 'boring' and 'dull', and it really shouldn't - it should mean the opposite. Because it comes from… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“In the streets, the children scream, the lovers cried, and the poets dreamed,” he crooned, putting down the metal grill tongs to take my… — Alexandria Clarke Copy Share Image
Some minds corrode and grow inactive under the loss of personal liberty; others grow morbid and irritable; but it is the nature of the… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem. — Helen Vendler Copy Share Image
All lyrical work must, as a whole, be perfectly intelligible, but in some particulars a little unintelligible. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
The world's history is a divine poem, of which the history of every nation is a canto, and every man a word. Its strains… — James A. Garfield Copy Share Image
