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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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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
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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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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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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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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 am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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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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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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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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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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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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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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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