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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
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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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It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
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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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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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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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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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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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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 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 hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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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What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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