Vita Sackville-West Quotes
Top 61 wise famous quotes and sayings by Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage; the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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.
But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung ...
Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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.
See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ...
She wondered which wounds went deeper: the jagged wounds of reality, or the profound invisible bruises of the imagination?
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.
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.
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.
The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.
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.
I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves ...
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.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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.
Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.