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Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.
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
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
V. Sackville-West
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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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All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have heldReality down fluttering to a bench.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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The most noteworthy thing about gardeners is that they are always optimistic, always enterprising, and never satisfied. They always look forward to doing something better than they have ever done before.
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It isn't that I don't like sweet disorder, but it has to be judiciously arranged.
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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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I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong.
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I like muddling things up and if a herb looks nice in a border, then why not grow it there? Why not grow anything anywhere so long as it looks right where it is? That is, surely, the art of gardening.
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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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The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.
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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking but even a solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
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Travel is the most private of pleasures. There is no greater bore than the travel bore. We do not in the least want to hear what he has seen in Hong-Kong.
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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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For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch.
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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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A man and his tools make a man and his trade.
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April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year.
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[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.
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