Edith Sitwell Quotes
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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 am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
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The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mindIs but a foolish wind.
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Within your magic web of hair, lies furledThe fire and splendour of the ancient world;The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair;The songs that turned to gold the evening airWhen all the stars of heaven sang for joy.
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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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Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
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Oh how the VacancyLaughed at them rushing by.'Turn again, flesh and brain,Only yourselves again!How far above the apeDiffering in each shape,You with your regularMeaningless circles are!'
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The great gold planet that is the mourning heat of the SunIs greater than all gold, more powerfulThan the tawny body of a Lion that fire consumesLike all that grows or leaps... so is the heartMore powerful than all dust.
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Mother or Murderer, you havegiven or taken life - Now all is one!
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People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
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Still falls the Rain - Still falls the Blood from the Starved Man's wounded Side:He bears in His Heart all wounds, - those of the light that died,The last faint sparkIn the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark...
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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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It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.