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

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen ...

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.

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.

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

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 wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.

For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch ...

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,

Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.

Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.

Small pleasures must correct great tragedies, therefore of gardens in the midst of war I bold tell.

Homesick we are, and always, for another
And different world.

It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.

The more one gardens, the more one learns; And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.

II worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

Summer makes a silence after spring.

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

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 cannot love your weeping poets ...

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.

One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.

April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.

There are no signposts in the sea.

Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.

How poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

Not seeing is half-believing.