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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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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
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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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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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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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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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 afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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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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