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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

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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
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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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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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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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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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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