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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Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so slightly perhaps, but still attached to...

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

I have lost friends, some by death, others through sheer inability to cross the street.

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

It is far harder to kill a phantom than a reality

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether,...

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

Money dignifies what is frivolous if unpaid for.

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

In solitude we give passionate attention to our lives, to our memories, to the details...

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

Most of a modest woman's life was spent, after all, in denying what, in one...

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...

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print.

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

Thought and theory must precede all salutary action; yet action is nobler in itself than...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his...

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...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasure - the relationship so secret...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the...

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.

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.