Quotes of Vita Sackville West - somelinesforyou

“ I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Not seeing is half-believing. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ There are no signposts in the sea. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on,Muted yet fiery. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ There are no signposts in the sea. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ 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. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop… ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on,Muted yet fiery. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop… ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ 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. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop… ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Autumn in felted slipper shuffles on,Muted yet fiery. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ So prodigal was I of youth, Forgetting I was young; I worshipped dead men for their strength, Forgetting I was strong. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop… ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop… ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ There are no signposts in the sea. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Women, like men, ought to have their youth so glutted with freedom they hate the very idea of freedom. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Every garden-maker should be an artist along his own lines. That is the only possible way to create a garden, irespective of size or wealth. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop… ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ The man who has planted a garden feels that he has done something for the good of the world. ”

- Vita Sackville West

“ Not seeing is half-believing. ”

- Vita Sackville West
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