Vita Sackville-West Quotes

I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

The greater cats with golden eyes Stare out between the bars. Deserts are there, and different skies, And night with different stars.

The country habit has me by the heart, For he’s bewitched for ever who has seen, Not with his eyes but with his vision, Spring Flow down the woods and stipple leaves with sun.

All craftsmen share a knowledge. They have held Reality down fluttering to a bench.

Forget not bees in winter, though they sleep, For winter’s big with summer in her womb.