Quotes by Vita Sackville-West

About Vita Sackville-West:

The Hon. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson is chiefly remembered for the celebrated garden at Sissinghurst she created with her diplomat husband, Sir Harold Nicolson. She is also remembered as the inspiration for the androgynous protagonist of the historical romp, Orlando: A Biography by her famous friend and admirer, Virginia Woolf, with whom she had a brief affair.
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Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

Vita Sackville-West

So many things are possible as long as you don't know they are impossible

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She walks in the loveliness she made, Between the apple-blossom and the water-- She walks among the patterned pied brocade, Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.

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Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan’t make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this.

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And still the strange meaningless conversations continue, and I wonder more and more at the fabric which nets the world together, so that anything which I do finally incubate out of my system into words will quite certainly be about solitude. Solitud...

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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

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

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

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

Vita Sackville-West

Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.

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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong Kong.

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I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.

Vita Sackville-West

The writer catches the changes of his mind on the hop. Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Growth of the soul, growth of the mind.

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There are no signposts in the sea.

Vita Sackville-West

Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.

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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree

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Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror th...

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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 is gone. That is where the writer scores over ...

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Author Bio

  • NameVita Sackville-West
  • DescriptionEnglish writer
  • AliasesLady Victoria Sackville-West; Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson
  • BornMarch 9, 1892
  • DiedJune 2, 1962
  • CountryUnited Kingdom
  • ProfessionHorticulturist; Writer; Poet; Gardener
  • WorksThe Edwardians; All Passion Spent