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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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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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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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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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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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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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding...
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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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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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The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.
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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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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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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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!
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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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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
Vita Sackville-West
I miss you even more than I could have believed and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
Vita Sackville-West
[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
Vita Sackville-West
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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