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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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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'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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