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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.

Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
Biographer
Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
Writer
Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
Otherwise
Dying
Health
Good

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The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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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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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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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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it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.
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... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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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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