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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
Edith Louisa Sitwell
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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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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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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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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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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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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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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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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 am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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