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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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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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Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
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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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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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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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Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
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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 may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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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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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
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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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There is no truth. Only points of view.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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