Vita Sackville-West - Time Quotes

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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.

Vita Sackville-West
It was a real event in my life and my heart to be with you the other day. We do matter to each other, don't we? however much our ways may have diverged. I think we have got something indestructible between us, haven't we? … It has been a very strange relationship, ours; unhappy at times, happy at others; but unique in its way, and infinitely precious to me and (may I say?) to you.
What I like about it is that we always come together again however long the gaps in our meetings may have been. Time seems to make no difference.

Vita Sackville-West
Oh bolting Time, rough pony of my days,
Halt by the hedgerow of my life to graze.

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There was just time, in this reprieve before death, to indulge herself to the full.... She could lie back against death and examine life.

Vita Sackville-West
Time was our banker once, and on our credit
Like an indulgent father let us draw.
Now he's turned sour, and our account does edit
And pounces on us with a usurer's claw.

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

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Sweet are the flutes of night-time, sweet the truce
Lies between day and day.

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Days I enjoy are days when nothing happens,
When I have no engagements written on my block,
When no one comes to disturb my inward peace,
When no one comes to take me away from myself
And turn me into a patchwork, a jig-saw puzzle,
A broken mirror that once gave a whole reflection,
Being so contrived that it takes too long a time
To get myself back to myself when they have gone.

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