Quotes by Vita Sackville-West

Victoria Mary Sackville-West, Lady Nicolson, CH, usually known as Vita Sackville-West, was an English poet, novelist, and garden designer. She was a successful novelist, poet, and journalist, as well as a prolific letter writer and diarist. She published more than a dozen collections of poetry during her lifetime and 13 novels.

I miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.

Missing SomeoneVita Sackville-West

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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by.

WritingVita Sackville-West

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Nothing earns respect so quickly as letting your fellows see that you are a match for them.

RespectVita Sackville-West

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Young people compel one to look forward on a life full of effort. Old people permit one to look backward on a life whose effort is over and done with.