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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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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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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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 have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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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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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
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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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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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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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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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