“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...]… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Clive with his tongue well-loosened, imagine my horror when he suddenly said, 'I wonder if I dare ask Vita a very indiscreet… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
There is something intrinsically wrong about letters. For one thing they are not instantaneous. ... Nor is this the only trouble about… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“Like a little warm coal in my heart burns your saying that you miss me. I miss you oh so much. How… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“I think she is one of the most mentally exciting people I know. She hates the wishy-washiness of Bloomsbury young men. We… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“You will get letters, very reasoned and illuminating, from many people; I cannot write you that sort of letter now, I can… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
“This is how you must imagine your letters arriving, and me carrying them off to read in peace, and saying 'oh darling Virginia', and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
“There had been no moments when she could differentiate and say: Then, at such a moment, I love him; and again, Then, at such… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur,… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme, — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope! — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
I like muddling things up; and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share
![“I don't want to get landed in an affair which might get beyond my control before I knew where I was. [...] But darling, Virginia is not the sort of person one thinks of in that way. There is something incongruous and almost indecent in the idea. I have gone to bed with her (twice), but that's all…” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6af/vita-sackville-west-4366_affair_i-don-t-want-to-get-landed-in-an-affair_2715854.jpg)
![“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude. You see that I am extremely sentimental. Had you suspected that?” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/378/vita-sackville-west-4366_letters_you-angel-you-have-written-please-in-all_452775.jpg)
![“[Virginia] is an exquisite companion, and I love her dearly. She has to stay in bed till luncheon, as she is still far from well, and she has lots of lessons to do. Leonard is coming on Saturday [...] Please don't think that a) I shall fall in love with Virginia b) Virginia will fall in love with…” quote by Vita Sackville-West](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/64f/vita-sackville-west-4366_fall-in-love_virginia-is-an-exquisite-companion-and-i_1353409.jpg)
