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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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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
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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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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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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 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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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