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Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on, Muted yet fiery.--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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Knole House
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Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
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Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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The public, as a whole, finds reassurance in longevity, and, after the necessary interlude of reaction, is disposed to recognize extreme old age as a sign of excellence. The long-liver has triumphed over at least one of man's initial handicaps: the brevity of 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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Not seeing is half-believing.
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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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 just miss you, in a quite simple desperate human way. Oh my dear, I can’t be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly.You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don’t love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don’t really resent it.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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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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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?
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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