Vita Sackville-West

For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of…

— Vita Sackville-West

I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.

— 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…

— 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,…

— Vita Sackville-West

Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom.

— 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…

— 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…

— Vita Sackville-West

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

— Vita Sackville-West

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

— Vita Sackville-West

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

— Vita Sackville-West

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

— Vita Sackville-West

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!

— Vita Sackville-West

“You angel, you have written. [...] Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just…

— Vita Sackville-West

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

— 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…

— Vita Sackville-West

But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt…

— Vita Sackville-West

Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.

— Vita Sackville-West

The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to…

— Vita Sackville-West

Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least…

— Vita Sackville-West

When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for…

— Vita Sackville-West

“We owned a garden on a hill, We planted rose and daffodil, Flowers that English poets sing, And hoped for glory in…

— Vita Sackville-West

“She walks in the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water-- She walks among the patterned pied brocade, Each flower…

— Vita Sackville-West

“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

A man and his tools make a man and his trade.

— Vita Sackville-West

Tools have their own integrity.

— Vita Sackville-West