22 Quotes by Virginia Woolf about Poetry

  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    Leaning over this parapet I see far out a waste of water. A fin turns. This bare visual impression is unattached to any line of reason, it springs up as one might see the fin of a porpoise on the horizon. Visual impressions often communicate thus briefly statements that we shall in time come to uncover and coax into words.

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  • Author Virginia Woolf
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    Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

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