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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
Biographer
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
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Unpopular
Electric
Pool
Eels
Catfish
Goldfish

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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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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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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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