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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.

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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
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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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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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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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