--- title: "5 Letter Quotes By Vita Sackville-West" description: "5 Letter quotes by Vita Sackville-West. Plus more from Vita Sackville-West and more Letter sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/vita-sackville-west-4366_letter_this-is-how-you-must-imagine-your-letter_113556.jpg" --- > [“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/this-is-how-you-must-imagine-your-letters-arriving-and-me-carrying/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/14e/vita-sackville-west-4366_letter_this-is-how-you-must-imagine-your-letter_113556.jpg) > [“You will get letters, very reasoned and illuminating, from many people; I cannot write you that sort of letter now, I can…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/you-will-get-letters-very-reasoned-and-illuminating-from-many-people/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/16a/vita-sackville-west-4366_gratitude_you-will-get-letters-very-reasoned-and-i_772943.jpg) > [“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-am-reduced-to-a-thing-that-wants-virginia-i-composed-a-beautiful/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/908/vita-sackville-west-4366_fine-art_i-am-reduced-to-a-thing-that-wants-virgi_1772017.jpg) > [There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/there-is-something-intrinsically-wrong-about-letters-for-one-thing/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/279/vita-sackville-west-4366_agonizing_there-is-something-intrinsically-wrong-a_2400997.jpg) > [a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/a-letter-by-its-arrival-defrauds-us-of-a-whole-secret-region-of-our/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/00d/vita-sackville-west-4366_arrivals_a-letter-by-its-arrival-defrauds-us-of-a_2595441.jpg) ## Other authors on Letter ## More by Vita Sackville-West > [For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-a-young-man-to-start-his-career-with-a-love-affair-with-an-older/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-cannot-bear-that-you-should-think-me-faithful-when-i-am-untrue/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/this-is-how-you-must-imagine-your-letters-arriving-and-me-carrying/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [“There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/there-had-been-no-moments-when-she-could-differentiate-and-say-then/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/women-like-men-ought-to-have-their-youth-so-glutted-with-freedom-they/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/the-farmer-and-the-gardener-are-both-busy-the-gardener-perhaps-the/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/for-the-last-40-years-of-my-life-i-have-broken-my-back-my-fingernails/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/successful-gardening-is-not-necessarily-a-question-of-wealth-it-is-a/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/what-is-beautiful-is-good-and-who-is-good-will-soon-be-beautiful/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/my-garden-all-is-overblown-with-roses-my-spirit-all-is-overblown-with/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/nothing-shows-up-the-difference-between-the-things-said-or-read-so/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/how-poor-and-disheartening-a-thing-is-experience-compared-with-hope/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [ “You angel, you have written. \[...\] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all-this-muddle-of-life-continue/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-miss-you-even-more-than-i-could-have-believed-and-i-was-prepared-to/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) > [I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/vita-sackville-west/i-like-muddling-things-up-and-if-a-herb-looks-nice-in-a-border-then/) [Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/vita-sackville-west/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/letter/vita-sackville-west/#itemlist", "name": "5 Letter Quotes By Vita Sackville-West", "numberOfItems": 5, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and smiling to myself, and reading them all over again. 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