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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation. — Vita Sackville-West

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. — Vita Sackville-West

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. — Vita Sackville-West

Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply. — Vita Sackville-West

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West

I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue. — Vita Sackville-West

The Saluki is a marvel of elegance. — Vita Sackville-West

Flowers really do intoxicate me. — Vita Sackville-West

There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat. — Vita Sackville-West

[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts. — Vita Sackville-West

Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom. — Vita Sackville-West

However many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own. — Vita Sackville-West

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ... — Vita Sackville-West

Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge. — Vita Sackville-West

Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers. — Vita Sackville-West

Tools have their own integrity ... — Vita Sackville-West

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. — Vita Sackville-West

Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth. — Vita Sackville-West

To hope for Paradise is to live in Paradise, a very different thing from actually getting there. — Vita Sackville-West

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ... — Vita Sackville-West

I don't know what to say to you expect that it tore my heart out of my body saying goodbye to you. — Vita Sackville-West

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep. — Vita Sackville-West

She wondered which wounds went deeper: the jagged wounds of reality, or the profound invisible bruises of the imagination? — Vita Sackville-West

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ... — Vita Sackville-West

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind. — Vita Sackville-West

II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. — Vita Sackville-West

Not seeing is half-believing. — Vita Sackville-West

Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this. — Vita Sackville-West

I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them. — Vita Sackville-West

I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves ... — Vita Sackville-West

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. — Vita Sackville-West

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme, — Vita Sackville-West

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope. — Vita Sackville-West

In 1922 Woolf met the writer Vita Sackville-West, who was to join Vanessa Bell and Leonard Woolf as the most significant people in her life. — Jane Goldman

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. — Vita Sackville-West

Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell. — Vita Sackville-West

Homesick we are, and always, for another
And different world. — Vita Sackville-West

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged. — Vita Sackville-West

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time. — Vita Sackville-West

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench. — Vita Sackville-West

The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised. — Vita Sackville-West

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ... — Vita Sackville-West

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows. — Vita Sackville-West

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. — Vita Sackville-West

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all. — Vita Sackville-West

It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own. — Vita Sackville-West

I cannot love your weeping poets ... — Vita Sackville-West

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling. — Vita Sackville-West

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year. — Vita Sackville-West

There are no signposts in the sea. — Vita Sackville-West

Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves. — Vita Sackville-West

And I'll tell you all the things I have in my head, millions, myriads - the won't stir by day, only by dark on the river. — Virginia Woolf

Don't mind being as miserable as you like with me - I have a great turn that way myself - [VW] — Vita Sackville-West

It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid. — Vita Sackville-West

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. — Vita Sackville-West

How poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope! — Vita Sackville-West

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. — Vita Sackville-West

I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. — Vita Sackville-West

A man and his tools make a man and his trade. — Vita Sackville-West

A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it. — Vita Sackville-West

Summer makes a silence after spring. — Vita Sackville-West

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt. — Vita Sackville-West

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen ... — Vita Sackville-West