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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
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
Goldfish
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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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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 reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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 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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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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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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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
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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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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
Edith Sitwell
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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