Vita Sackville-West Quotes about Life

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It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That

It is necessary to write, if the days are not to slip emptily by. How else, indeed, to clap the net over the butterfly of the moment? For the moment passes, it is forgotten; the mood is gone; life itself is gone. That is where the writer scores over his fellows: he catches the changes of his mind on the hop.

Vita Sackville-West

Life, Time, Writing

Vita Sackville-West, Mary Ann Caws (2003). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, p.125, Palgrave Macmillan

Serenity of spirit and turbulence of action should make up the sum of a man's life.

Vita Sackville-West

Inspirational, Funny, Life

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

Life, Country, Determination

Vita Sackville-West (2015). “Vita Sackville-West: Selected Writings”, Macmillan

Vita Sackville-West Quotes about Life

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