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Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters QUOTES

Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters QUOTES

1 " Please, in all this muddle of life, continue to be a bright and constant star. Just a few things remain as beacons: poetry, and you, and solitude. "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

2 " I wish, in a way, that we could put the clock back a year. I should like to startle you again, – even though I didn’t know then that you were startled. "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

3 " I am absolutely devoted to her, but not in love. So there. "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

4 " I am reduced to a thing that wants Virginia. I composed a beautiful letter to you in the sleepless nightmare hours of the night, and it has all gone. I just miss you... "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

5 " Someday I’ll write and tell you all the things you mean to me in my mind. Shall I? "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

6 " After all, what is a lovely phrase? One that has mopped up as much Truth as it can hold. "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

7 " Chances of meeting this person, doing that thing, accumulate. Life is as I’ve said since I was ten, awfully interesting – if anything, quicker, keener at forty-four than twenty-four – more desperate I suppose, as the river shoots to Niagara – my new vision of death. ‘The one experience I shall never describe’ I said to Vita yesterday. "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters

8 " And then, I don’t believe one ever knows people in their own surroundings; one only knows them away, divorced from all the little strings and cobwebs of habit. Long Barn, Knole, Richmond, and Bloomsbury. All too familiar and entrapping. Either I am at home, and you are strange; or you are at home, and I am strange; so neither is the real essential person, and confusion results. But in the Basque provinces, among a horde of zingaros, we should both be equally strange and equally real. On the whole, I think you had much better make up your mind to take a holiday and come. "

― Virginia Woolf , Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West: Love Letters