“O friendship, I too will press flowers between the pages of Shakespeare's sonnets!”
Source: The Waves
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Virginia Woolf 382
English writer 1882–1941Related quotes

"The Impersonal Aspect of Shakespeare's Art" (English Association Leaflet, 13, July 1909)

Dictionary of National Biography, art. "William Shakespeare"

“Before the flowers of friendship faded friendship faded.”
This phrase was used as the title of a work published in 1931, but was originally used in Ch. LXII of A Novel of Thank You, written in 1925-1926, but not published until 1958 by the Yale University Press

“Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree”
"Youth and Age", st. 2 (1823–1832).
Context: Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like;
Friendship is a sheltering tree;
Oh the joys that came down shower-like,
Of friendship, love, and liberty,
Ere I was old!

“The substantial difference between me and a friendship, I believe in true friendship.”
Original: La sostanziale differenza tra me ed un'amicizia, io credo nella vera amicizia.
Source: prevale.net

“Love is flower like; Friendship is like a sheltering tree.”
“How do you press a wildflower into the pages of an e-book?”
Source: The Yellow-Lighted Bookshop: A Memoir, a History