Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answeri... - Virginia Woolf, Orlando

"Are we so made that we have to take death in small doses daily or we could not go on with the business of living?"

"The taste for books was an early one. As a child he was sometimes found at midnight by a page still reading. They took his taper away, and he bred glow-worms to serve his purpose. They took the glow-worms away and he almost burnt the house down with a tinder."

"Love, the poet said, is woman's whole existence."

"The flower bloomed and faded. The sun rose and sank. The lover loved and went. And what the poets said in rhyme, the young translated into practice."

"Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice?"