British - Author | January 25, 1882 - March 28, 19411
It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top.
Virginia Woolf
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My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring diving, and then buried in mud. And why? What's this passion for?
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When the shriveled skin of the ordinary is stuffed out with meaning, it satisfies the senses amazingly.
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For what Harley Street specialist has time to understand the body, let alone the mind or both in combination, when he is a slave to thirteen thousand a year?
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The connection between dress and war is not far to seek; your finest clothes are those you wear as soldiers.
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I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by finding new words and creating new methods.
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The poet gives us his essence, but prose takes the mold of the body and mind.
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This is an important book, the critic assumes, because it deals with war. This is an insignificant book because it deals with the feelings of women in a drawing-room.
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Nothing has really happened until it has been recorded.
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If you insist upon fighting to protect me, or 'our' country, let it be understood soberly and rationally between us that you are fighting to gratify a sex instinct which I cannot share; to procure benefits where I have not shared and probably will not share.
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Indeed, I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.
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