For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical… — 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
Gardening is a luxury occupation: an ornament, not a necessity, of life.... Fortunate gardener, who may preoccupy himself solely with beauty in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the… — 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
A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“My dear Mr FitzGeorge!' cried Lady Slane. 'You really mustn't talk as though my life had been a tragedy. I had everything… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even a solitary little vase of a living flower… — 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
“And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so… — 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 Image
I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. — 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 Virginia', and… — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
“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 Image
Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
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 Image
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 Image
Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme, — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope! — Vita Sackville-West Copy Share Image
