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A flowerless room is a soulless room, to my way of thinking; but even on solitary little vase of a living flower may redeem it.
Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel.
Authority has every reason to fear the skeptic, for authority can rarely survive in the face of doubt.
I worshipped dead men for their strength, forgetting I was strong.
Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.... (more Vita Sackville-West quotes)
Her poem, "Sissinghurst" (Hogarth. 1 93 1), written as a tribute to her new home, was dedicated to Virginia Woolf (also her lover).
Rose to best-seller status in the 1930s for novels such as "The Edwardians" and "All Passion Spent".
Wrote some fifty books in all — not just novels and poetry but travel books, biography (fittingly, on Aphra Benn and Joan of Arc), and eight books on gardening.
Wrote two distinguished travel books, “Passenger to Teheran” (1926) and “Twelve Days” (1928), both very... (more Vita Sackville-West trivia)
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Portrait of a Marriage: Vita Sackville-West and Harold Nicolson by Nigel Nicolson |
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The Letters of Vita Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf by Louise DeSalvo and Mitchell A. Leaska |
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Vita's Other World: A Gardening Biography of Vita Sackville-West by Jane Brown |
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