"I spent an hour looking at pots..." - Quote by Virginia Woolf
I spent an hour looking at pots and carpets in the museums the other day, until the desire to describe them became like the desire for the lusts of the flesh.
More by Virginia Woolf
“Lines slip easily down the accustomed grooves. The old designs are copied so glibly that we are half inclined to think them original, save for that very glibness.”
“I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.”
“It is strange how a scrap of poetry works in the mind and makes the legs move in time to it along the road.”
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“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”
“Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and content; but nature compels him to leave ease... and throw himself into roils and labors.”
“When you are discontent, you always want more, more, more. Your desire can never be satisfied. But when you practice contentment, you can say to yourself, 'Oh yes - I already have everything that I really need.'”