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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
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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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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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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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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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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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If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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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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White as a winding sheet, Masks blowing down the street: Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone. The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
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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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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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