I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
VIRGINIA WOOLFI am in the mood to dissolve in the sky.
More Virginia Woolf Quotes
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of one’s own, with pictures and music and everything beautiful.
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A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
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Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.
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I don’t believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one’s aspect to the sun.
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When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don’t seem to matter very much, do they?
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For this moment, this one moment, we are together. I press you to me. Come, pain, feed on me. Bury your fangs in my flesh. Tear me asunder. I sob, I sob.
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When I cannot see words curling like rings of smoke round me I am in darkness – I am nothing.
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You cannot find peace by avoiding life.
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But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.
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Love, the poet said, is woman’s whole existence.
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I need silence, and to be alone and to go out, and to save one hour to consider what has happened to my world, what death has done to my world.
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And yet, the only exciting life is the imaginary one.
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She always had the feeling that it was very, very dangerous to live even one day.
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Thinking is my fighting.
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She dares me to pour myself out like a living waterfall. She dares me to enter the soul that is more than my own; she extinguishes fear in mere seconds. She lets light come through.
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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Humor is the first of the gifts to perish in a foreign tongue.
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Moments like this are buds on the tree of life. Flowers of darkness they are.
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Women and fiction remain, so far as I am concerned, unsolved problems.
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Arrange whatever pieces come your way.
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He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life.
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A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.
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Yes, I deserve a spring – I owe nobody nothing.
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Fear no more, says the heart.
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A light here required a shadow there.
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