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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.
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The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of a moment of their other lives - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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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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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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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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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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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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