Waving: Patti Smith's beautiful homage to Virginia Woolf, who took her own life on this day in 1941

"Something within her refused to grow. Something endless, eternal. Something bold. Something warrior-like. She looked up at the stars, she could feel, she felt as if she could pluck them one by one and send them spinning into the world, like small beautiful elastic mercurial weapons. Now too, the time is coming."

“One man will single me out and will tell me what he has told no other person.”