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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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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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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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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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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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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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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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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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