Virginia Woolf
Virginia Woolf
Adeline Virginia Woolf, known professionally as Virginia Woolf, was an English writer and one of the foremost modernists of the twentieth century...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth25 January 1882
CityLondon, England
passion yield civilization
Dance music ... stirs some barbaric instinct - lulled asleep in our sober lives - you forget centuries of civilization in a second, & yield to that strange passion which sends you madly whirling round the room.
writing together crafts
If only she could put them together, she felt, write them out in some sentence, then she would have got at the truth of things.
women writing words-of-wisdom
A woman must have money and a room of her own if she is to write fiction.
reading people giving
When the Day of Judgment dawns and people, great and small, come marching in to receive their heavenly rewards, the Almighty will gaze upon the mere bookworms and say to Peter, “Look, these need no reward. We have nothing to give them. They have loved reading.
weed prayer eye
Yes, yes, I'm coming. Right up the top of the house. One moment I'll linger. How the mud goes round in the mind-what a swirl these monsters leave, the waters rocking, the weeds waving and green here, black there, striking to the sand, till by degrees the atoms reassemble, the deposit sifts itself, and a gain through the eyes one sees clear and still, and there comes to the lips some prayer for the departed, some obsequy for the souls of those one nods to, the one never meets again.
light shadow
A light here required a shadow there.
thinking wish mood
But I think I’m coloured by my own wishes, & experimental mood.
men cauliflower
I prefer men to cauliflowers
vision
I have had my vision.
freedom enjoy control-ourselves
To enjoy freedom we have to control ourselves.
believe passion men
No passion is stronger in the breast of man than the desire to make others believe as he believes
incessant solitary company
Incessant company is as bad as solitary confinement.
past mrs-dalloway
for women live much more in the past...they attach themselves to places;
writing world
All the time she writing the world had continued.