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I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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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 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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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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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 am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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