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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
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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