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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.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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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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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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 light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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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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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Edith Sitwell
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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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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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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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?
Edith Sitwell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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