“A great acacia, with its slender trunk And overpoise of multitudinous leaves. (In which a hundred fields might spill their dew And intense verdure, yet find room enough) Stood reconciling all the place with green.” EnoughMightRoomsFieldsHundredGreenIntenseDewSpillsTrunksSlenderAcacia Book:Poetical works Source: Poetical works
“women have always been poor, not for two hundred years merely, but from the beginning of time. ... Women, then, have not had a dog's chance of writing poetry. That is why I have laid so much stress on money and a room of one's own.” WritingYearsTwoChancePoorRoomsDogHundredStressWriting Poetry Book:A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas Source: A Room of One's Own: And, Three Guineas
“Writing, and especially writing a novel, where you get to sit in a room by yourself with either a pen and a paper or a computer for a couple of years, is a very solitary occupation. You can read sales figures - a hundred thousand books sold, half a million books sold - but they are just numbers.” WritingYearsBookRoomsNumbersHalfMillionsNovelFiguresCoupleThousandPaperComputerHundredPensOccupationSolitary Author:Neil Gaiman
“Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.” IfsYearsNightSidesRoomsNumbersGreaterHundredWindowShiningPalaces Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967 Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967