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“Prose is a poor thing, a poor inadequate thing, compared with poetry which says so much more in shorter time.”

Quote by Vita Sackville-West

Book:Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

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Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings

This compilation includes a selection of Vita Sackville-West's literary contributions, offering insight into her diverse talents and the themes she explored throughout her career. more

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Vita Sackville-West

Vita Sackville-West was an English author, poet, and gardener, recognized for her novels, poetry, and gardening expertise. Born on March 9, 1892, and passing away on June 2, 1962, Sackville-West's writing delved into themes of love, nature, and the human condition. She was a member of the Bloomsbury Group, a group of artists, writers, and intellectuals in the early 20th century. more

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“When, and how, and at what stage of our development did spirituality and our strange notions of religion arise? the need for worship which is nothing more than our frightened refuge into propitiation of a Creator we do not understand? A detective story, the supreme Who-done-it, written in indecipherable hieroglyphics, no Rosetta stone supplied by the consummate Mystifier to tease us poor fumbling unravellers of his plot.”

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“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!”

Facts Body Spirit Sex Memories Cutting Loneliness Supreme Remedy Communion Pathetic Ephemeral Short Cuts

Book:No Signposts in the Sea

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“The true solitary ... will feel that he is himself only when he is alone; when he is in company he will feel that he perjures himself, prostitutes himself to the exactions of others; he will feel that time spent in company is time lost; he will be conscious only of his impatience to get back to his true life.”

Feels Lost Company Solitude Conscious Get Back Solitary Impatience True Life Time Spent

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Even knowledge has to be in the fashion, and where it is not, it is wise to affect ignorance.”

Knowledge Wise Fashion Ignorance

Author:Baltasar Gracian

“How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.”

Knows Wish Known Regret Travel Starting Subtle Traveler Nuisance Luggage Idiosyncrasies

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“The wise traveler is he who is perpetually surprised.”

Wise Travel Traveler

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Travel is a private pleasure, since it consists entirely of things felt and things seen.”

Felt Pleasure Travel

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“Travel is in sad case. It is uncomfortable, it is expensive; it is a source of annoyance to our friends, and of loneliness to ourselves.”

Cases Loneliness Source Travel Uncomfortable Expensive Annoyance

Author:Vita Sackville-West

“[On writing:] The most egotistic of occupations, and the most gratifying while it lasts.”

Writing Lasts Occupation

Book:No Signposts in the Sea

Source: No Signposts in the Sea

“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.”

Way Writing Water Levels Resolution Pens

Author:Vita Sackville-West