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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
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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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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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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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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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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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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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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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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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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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