What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a s…

Virginia Woolf
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What has praise and fame to do with poetry? Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? So that all this chatter and praise, and blame and meeting people who admired one and meeting people who did not admire one was as ill suited as could be to the thing itself- a voice answering a voice. ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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