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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.
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 suppose the pleasure of the country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. That is a truism when said, but anything but a truism when daily observed. Nothing shows up the difference between the thing said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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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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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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There are no signposts in the sea.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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It is no good my telling you. One never believes other people's experiencem and one is only very gradually convinced by one's own.
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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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