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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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