Quotation by Virginia Woolf

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"An Unwritten Novel" Monday or Tuesday (1921)A Room of One's Own (1929)"A Sketch of the Past" Moments of Being (written 1939-1940), ed. Jeanne Schulkind (1976)A Terrible Tragedy in a Duckpond (1990)A Writer's Diary ed. Leonard Woolf (1954)

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Who shall measure the heat and violence of the poet's heart when caught and tangled in a woman's body?

Virginia Woolf

Virginia Woolf (1882–1941), British novelist. A Room of One's Own, ch. 3 (1929).

Woolf added: "The indifference of the world which Keats and Flaubert and other men of genius have found so hard to bear was in her case not indifference but hostility. The world did not say to her as it said to them, Write if you choose; it makes no difference to me. The world said with a guffaw, Write? What's the good of you writing?"

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