"I am all the time thinking about..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
I am all the time thinking about poetry and fiction and you.
More by Virginia Woolf
“Life would split apart without letters.”
“So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball”
“I like the copious, shapeless, warm, not so very clever, but extremely easy and rather coarse aspect of things; the talk of men in clubs and public-houses; of miners half naked in drawers the forthright, perfectly unassuming, and without end in view except dinner, love, money and getting along tolerably; that which is without great hopes, ideals, or anything of that kind; what is unassuming except to make a tolerably, good job of it. I like all that.”
More on Thought
“True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one can think out for himself.”
“Life does not consist mainly, or even largely, of facts and happenings. It consists mainly ofthe storm of thought that is forever flowing through one's head.”
“He who writes carelessly confesses thereby at the very outset that he does not attach much importance to his own thoughts.”
More on Poetry
“Science is continually correcting what it has said. Fertile corrections... science is a ladder... poetry is a winged flight... An artistic masterpiece exists for all time... Dante does not efface Homer.”
“I've always wanted to write poems and nothing else.”
“For even they who compose treatises of medicine or natural philosophy in verse are denominated Poets: yet Homer and Empedocles have nothing in common except their metre; the former, therefore, justly merits the name of the Poet; while the other should rather be called a Physiologist than a Poet.”