28 ordspråk av Dame Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Sitwell
It is a 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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Poetry is the deification of reality.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
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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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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
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When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen
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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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