It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.