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Vita Sackville-West quotes

English Novelist March 9, 1892 – June 2, 1962

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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree Vita Sackville-West
We owned a garden on a hill, We planted rose and daffodil, Flowers that English poets sing, And hoped for glory in the Spring. We planted yellow hollyhocks, And humble sweetly-smelling stocks, And columbine for carnival, And dreamt of Summer's festival. And Autumn not to be outdone. As heiress of the summer sun, Should doubly wreathe her tawny head. With poppies and with creepers red. We waited then for all to grow, We planted wallflowers in a row. And lavender and borage blue, -Alas! we... Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West quote: "I cannot love your weeping poets..."
I cannot love your weeping poets... Vita Sackville-West
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West quote: "What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be..."
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West quote: "I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was..."
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. Vita Sackville-West
The fount of joy was bubbling in thine eyes, Dancing was in thy feet, And on thy lips a laugh that never dies, Unutterably sweet. Dance on! for ever young, for ever fair, Lightfooted as a frightened bounding deer, Thy wreath of vine-leaves twisted in thy hair, Through all the changing seasons of the year... Vita Sackville-West
Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong. 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
Vita Sackville-West quote: "I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was..."
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. 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
Vita Sackville-West quote: "Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with..."
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West quote: "Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or..."
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West quote: "There are no signposts in the sea."
There are no signposts in the sea. Vita Sackville-West
Vita Sackville-West quote: "Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation."
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation. Vita Sackville-West

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