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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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North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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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 light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.
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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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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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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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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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