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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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
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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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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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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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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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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 is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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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 poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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