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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
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[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
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 anotherAnd 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
