"The light struck upon the trees in..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
The light struck upon the trees in the garden, making one leaf transparent and then another. One bird chirped high up; there was a pause; another chirped lower down. The sun sharpended the walls of the house, and rested like the tip of a fan upon a white blind and made a fingerprint of a shadow under the leaf by the bedroom window. The blind stirred slightly, but all within was dim and unsubstantial. The birds sang their blank melody outside.
More by Virginia Woolf
“The way to rock oneself back into writing is this. First gentle exercise in the air. Second the reading of good literature. It is a mistake to think that literature can be produced from the raw. One must get out of life...one must become externalised; very, very concentrated, all at one point, not having to draw upon the scattered parts of one's character, living in the brain.”
“For nothing was simply one thing.”
“But nothing is so strange when one is in love (and what was this except being in love?) as the complete indifference of other people.”
More on Nature
“According to the law of nature it is only fair that no one should become richer through damages and injuries suffered by another.”
“Down the long and silent street, The dawn, with silver-sandaled feet, Crept like a frightened girl.”
“Some kinds of animals burrow in the ground; others do not. Some animals are nocturnal, as the owl and the bat; others use the hours of daylight. There are tame animals and wild animals. Man and the mule are always tame; the leopard and the wolf are invariably wild, and others, as the elephant, are easily tamed.”
More on Observation
“My eye is educated to discover anything on the ground, as chestnuts, etc. It is probably wholesomer to look at the ground much than at the heavens.”
“While those whom devotion to abstract discussions has rendered unobservant of the facts are too ready to dogmatize on the basis of a few observations.”
“They are not men, they are not women, they are Americans.”