Virginia Woolf
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Style is a very simple matter; it is all rhythm. Once you get that, you can't use the wrong words. But on the other hand here am I sitting after half the morning, crammed with ideas, and visions, and so on, and can't dislodge them, for lack of the right rhythm. Now this is very profound, what rhythm is, and goes far deeper than any words. A sight, an emotion, creates this wave in the mind, long before it makes words to fit it. ✨ Virginia Woolf, Joanne Trautmann Banks (1975). The Letters of Virginia Woolf: 1923-1928, Harcourt on Demand

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