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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.
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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Summer makes a silence after spring.
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For the last 40 years of my life I have broken my back, my fingernails, and sometimes my heart, in the practical pursuit of my favourite occupation.
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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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Things were not tragic for us then, because although we cared passionately we didn't care deeply.
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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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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It is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
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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 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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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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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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