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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
Vita Sackville-West
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Vita Sackville-West
Age: 70 †
Born: 1892
Born: March 9
Died: 1962
Died: June 2
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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I loved you when love was Spring, and May, Loved you when summer deepened into June, and now when autumn yellows all the leaves.
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Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irrespective of size or wealth.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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Click, clack, click, clack, went their conversation, like so many knitting-needles, purl, plain, purl, plain, achieving a complex pattern of references, cross-references, Christian names, nicknames, and fleeting allusions.
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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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The farmer and the gardener are both busy, the gardener perhaps the more excitable of the two, for he is more of the amateur, concerned with the creation of beauty rather than with the providing of food. Gardening is a luxury occupation an ornament, not a necessity, of life.
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live.
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however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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A good start in life is as important to plants as it is to children: they must develop strong roots in a congenial soil, otherwise they will never make the growth that will serve them richly according to their needs in their adult life.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--Vita Sackville-West
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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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