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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
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Essayist
Literary Critic
Poet
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Scarborough
North Yorkshire
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell
Edith Louisa Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
Miss Edith
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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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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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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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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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 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 may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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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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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 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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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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