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

“Yes yes yes I do like you. I am afraid to write the stronger word.”

“Why, if it was an illusion, not praise the catastrophe, whatever it was, that destroyed illusion and put truth in it's place?”

“This self now as I leant over the gate looking down over fields rolling in waves of colour beneath me made no answer. He threw up no opposition. He attempted no phrase. His fist did not form. I waited. I listened. Nothing came, nothing. I cried then with a sudden conviction of complete desertion. Now there is nothing. No fin breaks the waste of this immeasurable sea. Life has destroyed me. No echo comes when I speak, no varied words. This is more truly death than the death of friends, than the death of youth.”

“Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?”

“Green in nature is one thing, green in literature another. Nature and letters seem to have a natural antipathy; bring them together and they tear each other to pieces.”

“Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.”

“In times of crisis, we must all decide again and again whom we love.”

“Kindness”

“At first first nothing will happen to us”

“Poetry is the sound of the human animal.”

“Poetry makes life what lights and music do the stage.”

“How can the confessor teach/ those who are lost and sick at heart,/ when he himself, among the sinners,/ is worst, and most forsaken?/ It is only a game we play/ with other people's sins./ Besides, everyone knows/ that everyone lies confessing.”