Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice…

Virginia Woolf
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Was not writing poetry a secret transaction, a voice answering a voice? ✨ Virginia Woolf (2012). Orlando: A Biography, p.306, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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