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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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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
Poet
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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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 hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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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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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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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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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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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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