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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.
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
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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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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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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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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