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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

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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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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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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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.
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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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