"How far we are going to read..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.
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“The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages.”
“The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but largely in the power to communicate with a third party, antagonistic, enigmatic, yet perhaps persuadable, which one may call life in general.”
“A writer should give direct certainty; explanations are so much water poured into the wine.”
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“Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors.”
“No publisher should ever express an opinion of the value of what he publishes. That is a matter entirely for the literary critic to decide.”
“I could see now that a literary education did not fit one for the popular novelist's trade.Once you had started using words like flavicomous or acroamatic, because you liked the sound of them, you were lost.”
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“Poetic justice, poetic justice.. if I told you that a flower bloom in a dark room would you trust it. I mean I write poems in these songs.”
“There's nothing great Nor small, has said a poet of our day, Whose voice will ring beyond the curfew of eve And not be thrown out by the matin's bell.”
“And Marlowe, Webster, Fletcher, Ben, Whose fire-hearts sowed our furrows when The world was worthy of such men.”