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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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North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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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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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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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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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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 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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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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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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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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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