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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.
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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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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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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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
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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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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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 poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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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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I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
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