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

“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”

“Like" and "like" and "like"--but what is the thing that lies beneath the semblance of the thing?”

“Better was it to go unknown and leave behind you an arch, then to burn like a meteor and leave no dust.”

“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.”

“If woman had no existence save in the fiction written by men, one would imagine her a person of the utmost importance (...); as great as a man, some think even greater. But this is woman in fiction. In fact, as”

“When you consider things like the stars, our affairs don't seem to matter very much, do they?”

“Though we tremble before uncertain futures”

“I like this place and could willingly waste my time in it.”

“She found herself”

“be the kiss in my hair”

“Silence can be a plan”

“I placed a jar in Tennessee and round it”