Vita Sackville-West Quotes
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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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Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.
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Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens, When I have no engagements written on my block, When no one comes to disturb my inward peace, When no one comes to take me away from myself And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle, A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection, Being so contrived that it takes too long a time To get myself back to myself when they have gone.
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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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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?
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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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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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Flowers really do intoxicate me.
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Ambition, old as mankind, the immemorial weakness of the strong.
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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.