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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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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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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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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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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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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'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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