Vita Sackville-West (1892 – 1962) the British novelist, poet, and garden writer, was best known for All Passion Spent and The Edwardians. Presented here are quotes by Vita Sackville-West that are a testament to her as a thinker and writer.

Where passion was concerned, she was involved in a number of intense affairs with both men and women (including, famously, Virginia Woolf).

All the while, she was in a loving open marriage with diplomat Harold Nicolson, with whom she had two sons. She was also devoted to the gardens at her ancestral home, Sissinghurst. Read More→