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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
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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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.
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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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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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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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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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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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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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