Quotes by Woolf, Virginia

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent; and he is >>

I thought how unpleasant it is to be locked out; and I thought how it >>

It is the nature of the artist to mind excessively what is said about >>

Quotations about Poetry and Poets

Prose on certain occasions can bear a great deal of poetry; on the oth >>

Poetry is a way of taking life by the throat. >>

The job of the poet is to render the world -- to see it and report it >>

The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.

Woolf, Virginia