Jason (jcreed) wrote,
Jason
jcreed

Some interesting quotes I'm finding in "Genius". One's a funny review of "Wuthering Heights" by D. G. Rossetti:
It is a fiend of a book, an incredible monster, combining all the stronger female tendencies from Mrs. Browning to Mrs. Brownrigg. The action is laid in Hell, only it seems places and people have English names there.p.319

The other's a haunting, very personal remark by Virginia Woolf:
Perhaps this is the strongest pleasure known to me. It is the rapture I get when in writing I seem to be discovering what belongs to what; making a scene come right; making a character come together. From this I reach what I might call a philosophy; at any rate it is a constant idea of mine; that behind the cotton wool is hidden a pattern; that we — I mean all human beings — are connected with this; that the whole world is a work of art; that we are parts of the work of art. Hamlet or a Beethoven quartet is the truth about this vast mass that we call the world. But there is no Shakespeare, there is no Beethoven; certainly and emphatically there is no God; we are the words; we are the music; we are the thing itself. And I see this when I have a shock.p.328


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ETA: Man, I can't believe someone managed to put a christian spin on this! Well, maybe I can.
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