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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
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it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love Gone is the heart of Man.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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