Vita Sackville-West - Year Quotes

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Yours is the year that counts no season;
I can never be sure what age you are.

Vita Sackville-West

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

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In February, if the days be clear,
The waking bee, still drowsy on the wing,
Will sense the opening of another year
And blunder out to seek another spring.

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Women, like men, ought to have their years so glutted with freedom that they hate the very idea of freedom.

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I have come to the conclusion, after many years of sometimes sad experience, that you cannot come to any conclusion at all.

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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.

Vita Sackville-West

There's no beginning to the farmer's year,
Only recurrent patterns on a scroll
Unwinding.

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I sing the cycle of my country's year,
I sing the tillage, and the reaping sing,
Classic monotony, that modes and wars
Leave undisturbed, unbettered, for their best
Was born immediate, of expediency.

Vita Sackville-West