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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
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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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The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.
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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 may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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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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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of a moment of their other lives - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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