The Land Quotes

“She walks in the loveliness she made,
Between the apple-blossom and the water--
She walks among the patterned pied brocade,
Each flower her son, and every tree her daughter.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Land

“As each man knows the life that fits him best,
The shape it makes in his soul, the tune, the tone”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Land

“I sing once more
The mild continuous epic of the soil”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Land

“Prune my ambition to the lowly prayer
That I may drive the furrow of my tale
Straight, through the lives and dignities I know.”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Land

“I sing the cycle of my country's year,
I sing the tillage, and the reaping sing,”
― Vita Sackville-West, The Land