Poetry Quote by Virginia Woolf — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“I told you in the course of this paper that Shakespeare had a sister; but do not look for her in”

“Septimus has been working too hard" - that was all she could say to her own mother. To love makes one solitary, she thought.”

“For while directly we say that it [the length of human life] is ages long, we are reminded that it is briefer than the fall of a rose leaf to the ground.”

“The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice.”

“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other people.”

“When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.”

“هر کجا هستم،باشم”

“We do not play on Graves—”

“পৃথক পাহাড়”

“But for their cries,”

“If poetry introduces the strange, it does so by means of the familiar. The poetic is the familiar dissolving into the strange, and ourselves with it. It never dispossesses us entirely, for the words, the images (once dissolved) are charged with emotions already experienced, attached to objects which link them to the known.”

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,”