Vita Sackville-West - Love Quotes

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April the angel of the months, the young
Love of the year.

Vita Sackville-West
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.

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Their strength's eternal in their sight,
They overtake the deer in flight,
And in their arrogance they smite;
But I am sage, if they are strong:
Man's love is transient as his death is long.

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I felt your love as a benediction
In tranquil branches above me spread,
Over my sometimes troubled head.

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It is incredible how essential to me you have become. I suppose you are accustomed to people saying these things. Damn you, spoilt creature; I shan't make you love me any the more by giving myself away like this — But oh my dear, I can't be clever and stand-offish with you: I love you too much for that. Too truly. You have no idea how stand-offish I can be with people I don't love. I have brought it to a fine art. But you have broken down my defences. And I don't really resent it.

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The greater cats with golden eyes
Stare out between the bars.
Deserts are there, and the different skies,
And night with different stars.
They prowl the aromatic hill,
And mate as fiercely as they kill,
To roam, to live, to drink their fill;
But this beyond their wit know I:
Man loves a little, and for long shall die.

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There is nothing more lovely in life than the union of two people whose love for one another has grown through the years, from the small acorn of passion to a great rooted tree. Surviving all vicissitudes, and rich with its manifold branches, every leaf holding its own significance.

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The fingers of the Winter drip.
They weaken into water, as a heart
Melted by love.

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It is terrible to be twenty, Lady Slane. It is as bad as being faced with riding over the Grand National course. One knows one will almost certainly fall into the Brook of Competition, and break one's leg over the Hedge of Disappointment, and stumble over the Wire of Intrigue, and certainly come to grief over the Obstacle of Love.

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It is quite true that you have had infinitely more influence on me intellectually than anyone, and for this alone I love you.

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