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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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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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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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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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.
Edith Sitwell
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
There is no truth. Only points of view.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
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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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell
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?
Edith Sitwell
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.
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