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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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
Edith Louisa Sitwell
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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 reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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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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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.
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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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In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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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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