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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.

Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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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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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.
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The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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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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