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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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
Dame Edith Sitwell
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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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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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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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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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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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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.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.
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