Vita Sackville-West Quotes

• I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

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• The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and different skies, And night with different stars.

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• The country habit has me by the heart, For he’s bewitched for ever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.

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• All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have held Reality down fluttering to a bench.

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• Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep, For winter’s big with summer in her womb.

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• 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.

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• Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

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• I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.

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• Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

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• What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.

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• 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.

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• The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.

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• Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

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

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

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• There are no signposts in the sea.

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Vita Sackville-West (16)

Birth:	9th March, 1892
Death:	2nd June, 1962
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Author, Poet

About

The Hon Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, best known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English author, poet and gardener. She won the Hawthornden Prize in 1927 and 1933. She was known for her exuberant aristocratic life, her passionate affair with the novelist Virginia Woolf, and Sissinghurst Castle Garden, which she and her husband, Sir Harold Nicolson, created at their estate.

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