Who shall measure the hat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Quote by Virginia Woolf

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It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be...

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

This soul, or life within us, by no means agrees with the life outside us....

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion...

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

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

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death!

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Each has his past shut in him like the leaves of a book known to...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

Almost any biographer, if he respects facts, can give us much more than another fact...

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Why are women... so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Once conform, once do what other people do because they do it, and a lethargy...

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Odd how the creative power at once brings the whole universe to order.

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

Women have served all these centuries as looking glasses possessing the power of reflecting the...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

One likes people much better when they're battered down by a prodigious siege of misfortune...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

A masterpiece is something said once and for all, stated, finished, so that it's there...

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

Great bodies of people are never responsible for what they do.

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...

This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is...