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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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
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Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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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My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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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 light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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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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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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