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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
Knole
Lady Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
Lady Nicolson
Victoria Sackville-West
Victoria Mary Sackville-West
V. Sackville-West
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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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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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I cannot abide the Mr. and Mrs. Noah attitude towards marriage the animals went in two by two, forever stuck together with glue.
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Growth is exciting growth is dynamic and alarming.
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One must be businesslike, although the glass is falling.
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Not seeing is half-believing.
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Is it better to be extremely ambitious, or rather modest? Probably the latter is safer but I hate safety, and would rather fail gloriously than dingily succeed.
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Still, no gardener would be a gardener if he did not live in hope.
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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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Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
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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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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
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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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My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme.
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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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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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Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.
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Tools have their own integrity.
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What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful.
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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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