Virginia, I become you

Quote of the day:

Best friend, my well spring in the wilderness. George Eliot

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My dear Virginia,

How much I like getting letters from you. With what zest do they send me to meet the day. So much do I like getting them, that I keep them as the last letter to open of my morning post, like a child keeps the bit of chocolate for the end -

That's one of the openings of a letter from Vita Sackville-West to Virginia Woolf, September 2, 1925. I received a book of their letters to each other on Tuesday, and have been reading them on and off all week - into the wee hours last night. God I adore those women - the way they write, how they looked, who they were! Have loved them both forever. And am so enjoying reading their letters.

It is like with a really good movie (of course, The Hours was such a one, and of course, for me, the Virginia Woolf character).

... I get so into it that I feel I become them for awhile ... or, at least, one of them ... if only I was half as literary and creative as Virginia Woolf - with half her beauty and courage ...

... although, I think I sometimes have the tendency to be almost as wistful and sad as she ...