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There are no signposts in the sea.
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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I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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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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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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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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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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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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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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