Reply to Virginia Woolf

[Phil Rose]

I was thinking about time gone by and how it can distort and consume the present.
I remembered the following lines about the past written by Virginia Woolf:

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises a true emotion at the time.

It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.


With this realisation I wrote this reply to Virginia Woolf:

The greatest emotions one can feel are the one's that evolve with each heart beat and are real.

The ones that stretch slowly and completely around your soul.

The ones that live within and without a shadow.

The ones that spin a web around your heart.

The ones that die so delicately and silent.

The one's that speak the truth to one's self.

The one's that are true to the silhouette that is history.

Real emotions offer the breath of honesty to those whose sacred hearts you love

Being true to the heart that opens to recieve

Is the greatest emotion of all.

Loving those who love you is the greatest emotion of all.

[mat james]

the silhouette that is history.

That image of yours works brilliantly, Phil.

(But I don't agree with Virginia Woolf's quote.)