Flower Quotes by Vita Sackville-West

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Vita Sackville‑West’s garden of flower quotes blends aristocratic poise with a love for the wild. Fifteen pieces give a taste of her nuanced voice, inviting readers to savor both the cultivated and the untamed.

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Flowers really do intoxicate me.

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Summer makes a silence after spring.

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

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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.

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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower…

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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West

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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.

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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.

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

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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…

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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of…

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I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not…

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Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life… Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in…

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It is a sad moment when the first phlox appears. It is the amber light indicating the end of the great burst…

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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of…

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

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

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