Selected Letters Quotes

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry and madness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“Sometimes I think heaven must be one continuous unexhausted reading.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“I do think all good and evil comes from words. I have to tune myself into a good temper with something musical, and I run to a book as a child to its mother.”
― Virginia Woolf, Congenial Spirits: The Selected Letters Of Virginia Woolf

“I’m not clear enough in the head to feel anything but varieties of dull anger and arrows of sadness.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“I like her. She makes life interesting. She, herself, is interesting, I suppose. She talks right from the heart. I appreciate her frankness and I like the fact that she doesn’t force the natural flow of a conversation. There’s personality in her words. She thus gets to the core of things and that’s important because with her — I can talk knowing that the talk is real! Oh believe me, it’s amazingly real! And she also gives me the opportunity to listen as fully and completely as possible. And I can’t seem to get her out of my head […]”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters

“My brain hums with scraps of poetry.”
― Virginia Woolf, Selected Letters