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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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
Knole
Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
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Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep.
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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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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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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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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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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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Violence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.
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I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue.
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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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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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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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See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go.
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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion, into a great rooted tree
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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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