Virginia Woolf Quotes About Tragedy

Quotes about: Tragedy

• That perhaps is your task--to find the relation between things that seem incompatible yet have a mysterious affinity, to absorb every experience that comes your way fearlessly and saturate it completely so that your poem is a whole, not a fragment; to re-think human life into poetry and so give us tragedy again and comedy by means of characters not spun out at length in the novelist's way, but condensed and synthesized in the poet's way--that is what we look to you to do now.

  Virginia Woolf

  Character, Mean, Thinking

  Virginia Woolf (1932). “A Letter to a Young Poet”

• Tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Tragedy, Hungry, Hours

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

• With twice his wits, she had to see things through his eyes -- one of the tragedies of married life.

  Virginia Woolf

  Eye, Tragedy, Married

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.902, Delphi Classics

• Disastrous would have been the result if a fire or a death had suddenly demanded something heroic of human nature, but tragedies come in the hungry hours.

  Virginia Woolf

  Fire, Tragedy, Heroic

  Virginia Woolf (2016). “The Voyage Out”, p.140, Virginia Woolf

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