Nothing thicker than a knife’s blade separates happiness from melancholy.
VIRGINIA WOOLFThere was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world.
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There was a star riding through clouds one night, & I said to the star, ‘Consume me
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Love had a thousand shapes.
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Friendships, even the best of them, are frail things. One drifts apart.
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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.
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It might be possible that the world itself is without meaning.
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And all the lives we ever lived and all the lives to be are full of trees and changing leaves.
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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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Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can’t use the wrong words.
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He smiled the most exquisite smile, veiled by memory, tinged by dreams.
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The mind must be allowed to settle undisturbed over the object in order to secrete the pearl.
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A veil of insanity everywhere: Oh why I was born in this age? It is a terrible age.
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The truth is, I often like women. I like their unconventionality. I like their completeness. I like their anonymity.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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