It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? — 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 the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself… — 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
