For a young man to start his career with a love affair with an older woman was quite de rigueur ... Of course, it must not go on for too long. An apprenticeship was a very different thing from a career. Vita Sackville-West More Quotes by Vita Sackville-West More Quotes From Vita Sackville-West 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. Vita Sackville-West determination life country My garden all is overblown with roses,/ My spirit all is overblown with rhyme. Vita Sackville-West garden spirit rose I suppose the pleasure of country life lies really in the eternally renewed evidences of the determination to live. Vita Sackville-West determination country lying Growth is exciting; growth is dynamic and alarming. Vita Sackville-West growth exciting April, the angel of the months, the young love of the year. Vita Sackville-West young-love angel years Tools have their own integrity. Vita Sackville-West usefulness tools integrity Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen. Vita Sackville-West felt pleasure travel What is beautiful is good, and who is good will soon be beautiful. Vita Sackville-West women beautiful beauty [On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts. Vita Sackville-West occupation lasts writing The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised. Vita Sackville-West traveler wise travel that pathetic short-cut suggested by Nature the supreme joker as a remedy for our loneliness, that ephemeral communion which we persuade ourselves to be of the spirit when it is in fact only of the body - durable not even in memory! Vita Sackville-West loneliness memories sex It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How Vita Sackville-West butterfly moments writing how poor and disheartening a thing is experience compared with hope! Vita Sackville-West disheartening experience poor I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them. Vita Sackville-West january evidence enough a letter, by its arrival, defrauds us of a whole secret region of our existence, the only region indeed in which the true pleasure of life may be tasted, the region of imagination, creative and protean, the clouds and beautiful shapes of whose heaven are destroyed by the wind of reality. Vita Sackville-West clouds beautiful reality Among the many problems which beset the novelist, not the least weighty is the choice of the moment at which to begin his novel. Vita Sackville-West novelists choices writing For bees are captious folk / And quick to turn against the lubber's touch. Vita Sackville-West folks turns bees Nothing shows up the difference between the things said or read, so much as the daily experience of it. Vita Sackville-West differences shows said I cannot bear that you / Should think me faithful, when I am untrue. Vita Sackville-West faithful infidelity thinking however many resolutions one makes, one's pen, like water, always finds its own level, and one can't write in any way other than one's own. Vita Sackville-West levels writing water
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