124 Quotes by Vita Sackville-West

Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it.

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

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?

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.

Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming.

My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme,

See the last orange roses, how they blow / Deeper and heavier than in their prime, / In one defiant flame before they go ...

There's no beginning to the farmer's year, / Only recurrent patterns on a scroll / Unwinding ...

how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope!