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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?

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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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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But you, oh gardener, poet that you be / Though unaware, now use your seeds like words / And make them lilt with color nicely flung.
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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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There is always something else to do. A gardener should have nine times as many lives as a cat.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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 his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.
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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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Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.
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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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that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory!
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.
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For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career.
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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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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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The more one gardens, the more one learns And the more one learns, the more one realizes how little one knows.
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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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Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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