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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.
Edith Sitwell
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Edith Sitwell
Age: 77 †
Born: 1887
Born: September 7
Died: 1964
Died: December 9
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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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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In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.
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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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[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
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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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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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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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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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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 poet is the complete lover of mankind.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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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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I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.
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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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I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
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All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.
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The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
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