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“I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.”

Quote by Edith Sitwell

Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

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Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

This book is a memoir that provides insights into the author's life journey, detailing significant events and personal growth. more

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British poet known for her unique style and themes. Edith Sitwell was born on September 7, 1887, and died on December 9, 1964. Her poetry has had a profound impact on the literary world. more

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Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

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Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

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Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

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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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“By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.”

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Book:Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

Source: Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology

“What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.”

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Source: Selected Letters

“I never thought that I could make a living out of my voice, to be completely honest. I thought that I could probably keep playing pubs. And it was exciting for me to get even just a pub gig in my town or country, when I went to university.”

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“By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.”

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Book:Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

Source: Taken Care Of: An Autobiography

“The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves.”

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Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems

“Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.”

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Author:Edith Sitwell