Successful gardening is not necessarily a question of wealth, it is a question of love, taste, and knowledge.
Vita Sackville-WestI miss you even more than I could have believed; and I was prepared to miss you a good deal.
Vita Sackville-WestIt is dreadful how I miss you, and everything that everybody says seems flat and stupid.
Vita Sackville-WestViolence, passion, indignation, loyalty, integrity, incorruptibility, shameless egoism, generosity, excitability, energy, a hundred horse-power drive - none of it very subtle: Ethel [Smyth] didn't deal in pastel shades, she went for the stronger colors, the blood-red, anything deep and pumping out of the arteries of the heart.
Vita Sackville-West