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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
Goldfish
Pond
Unpopular
Electric
Pool
Eels
Catfish

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I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.
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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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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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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 wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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 am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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