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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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
Miss Edith
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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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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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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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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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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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