As an experience, madness is terrific ... and in its lava I still find most of the things I write about.
Virginia WoolfYet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.
Virginia WoolfIndeed there has never been any explanation of the ebb and flow in our veins--of happiness and unhappiness.
Virginia WoolfWomen have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.
Virginia WoolfThe good diarist writes either for himself alone or for a posterity so distant that it can safely hear every secret and justly weigh every motive. For such an audience there is need neither of affectation nor of restraint. Sincerity is what they ask, detail, and volume; skill with the pen comes in conveniently, but brilliance is not necessary; genius is a hindrance even; and should you know your business and do it manfully, posterity will let you off mixing with great men, reporting famous affairs, or having lain with the first ladies in the land.
Virginia Woolf