Famous quotes containing the words private and/or void:
“If one could be friendly with women, what a pleasurethe relationship so secret and private compared with relations with men. Why not write about it truthfully?”
—Virginia Woolf (18821941)
“The man Shelley, in very truth, is not entirely sane, and Shelleys poetry is not entirely sane either. The Shelley of actual life is a vision of beauty and radiance, indeed, but availing nothing, effecting nothing. And in poetry, no less than in life, he is a beautiful and ineffectual angel, beating in the void his luminous wings in vain.”
—Matthew Arnold (18221888)
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