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Vita Sackville-West, właśc. Victoria Mary Sackville-West – angielska poetka, pisarka, ogrodniczka.

Była jedyną córką Lionela Edwarda Sackville-West i Victorii Josefy Dolores Cataliny Sackville-West . W 1913 poślubiła Harolda Nicholsona. W 1914 urodziła pierwszego syna, Lionela Benedicta. W 1915 drugi syn urodził się martwy. Natomiast w 1917 przyszedł na świat jej trzeci syn, Nigel Nicolson. Znana była ze swojego nietypowego arystokratycznego życia oraz związków z kobietami, m.in. Violet Trefusis i Virginią Woolf. Do jej ważniejszych dzieł należy poemat liczący dwa i pół tysiąca wersów, The Land, poświęcony jej partnerce, poetce Dorothy Wellesley. Wikipedia  

✵ 9. Marzec 1892 – 2. Czerwiec 1962
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Vita Sackville-West: Cytaty po angielsku

“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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"The Greater Cats"
Kings Daughter (1929)

“If I had only loved your flesh
And careless damned your soul to Hell,
I might have laughed and loved afresh,
And loved as lightly and as well,
And little more to tell.”

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"Song" in The Best Poems of 1923 (1924) edited by Thomas Moult

“The young men strained upon the crank
To wring the last reluctant inch.
They laughed together, fair and frank,
And threw their loins across the winch.”

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"Making Cider"
The Land (1926)

“And what have I to give my friends in the last resort?
An awkwardness, a shyness, and a scrap,
No thing that's truly me, a bootless waste,
A waste of myself and them, for my life is mine
And theirs presumably theirs, and cannot touch.”

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"Days I enjoy" quoted in Vita and Virginia: The Work and Friendship of V. Sackville-West and Virginia Woolf (1993) by Suzanne Raitt, p. 89

“All her lovers have passed, her beautiful lovers have passed,
The young and eager men that fought for her arrogant hand,
And the only voice which endures to mourn for her at the last
Is the voice of the lonely land.”

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"Mariana In The North"
Orchard and Vineyard (1921)

“Who could so watch, and not forget the rack
Of wills worn thin and thought become too frail,
Nor roll the centuries back —
And feel the sinews of his soul grow hale,
And know himself for Rome's inheritor?”

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"Tuscany" in The Best Poems of 1923 (1924) edited by Thomas Moult

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

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Letter to her husband Harold Nicolson (1 June 1919); published in Harold and Vita (1992), by Nigel Nicolson, p. 89

“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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Letter to Virginia Woolf (29 January 1927). as quoted in Granite and Rainbow : The Hidden Life of Virginia Woolf (2000) by Mitchell Leaska, p. 259