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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
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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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By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.
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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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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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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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Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
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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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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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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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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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 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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