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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.
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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Of course I should love to throw a toothbrush into a bag, and just go, quite vaguely, without any plans or even a real destination. It is the Wanderlust.
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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.
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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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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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all the small squalors of the body, known only to oneself, insignificant in youth, easily dismissed, in old age became dominant and entered into fulfilment of the tyranny they had always threatened.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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Everywhere bees go racing with the hours, / For every bee becomes a drunken lover, / Standing upon his head to sup the flowers.
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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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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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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