Virginia Woolf Poet Quotations

The beautiful seems right by force of beauty, and the feeble wrong because of weakness.

Women have burnt like beacons in all the works of all the poets from the beginning of time.

The poet is always our contemporary.

How far we are going to read a poet when we can read about a poet is a problem to lay before biographers.

Now begins to rise in me the familiar rhythm; words that have lain dormant now lift, now toss their crests, and fall and rise, and falls again. I am a poet, yes. Surely I am a great poet.

I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman.

Yet, it is true, poetry is delicious; the best prose is that which is most full of poetry.

And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.

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