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Quote by Edith Sitwell

“I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.”

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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

“Nature seems to exult in abounding radicality, extremism, anarchy. If we were to judge nature by its common sense or likelihood, we wouldn't believe the world existed. In nature, improbabilities are the one stock in trade. The whole creation is one lunatic fringe. ... No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe.”

Ifs World Believe Whole Seems Nature Common Creation Judging Claims Trade Common Sense Revelations Anarchy Fringe Extremism Lunatic Likelihood Giraffe Improbability

Author:Annie Dillard

“I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day, as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive.”

Break Sea Awareness Thousand Skins Dolphins

Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“What I sought in books was imagination. It was depth, depth of thought and feeling; some sort of extreme of subject matter; some nearness to death; some call to courage. I myself was getting wild; I wanted wildness, originality, genius, rapture, hope. ... What I sought in books was a world whose surfaces, whose people and events and days lived, actually matched the exaltation of the interior life. There you could live.”

Source: An American Childhood

“I record stuff all the time, like little vocal things. I write random things down... Sometimes I just get things stuck in my head and I record them, and that actually becomes a song quite a lot of the time.”

Writing Littles Sometimes Song Stuff Records Stuck Vocal Random Things

Author:Ellie Goulding

“Private life, book life, took place where words met imagination without passing through the world.”

World Book Imagination Mets Passing Passings Private Life Passing Through

Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“Almost all of my many passionate interests, and my many changes of mind, came through books. Books prompted the many vows I made to myself.”

Mind Made Book Interest Passionate Vow Mind Changing

Author:Annie Dillard

“No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, but then the times get to them, and the wear out their brains learning what folks expect, and spend their strength trying to rise over those same folks.”

Knows Trying Children Earth Brain Ordinary Folks Meant To Be

Book:The living

Source: The living

“Young children have no sense of wonder. They bewilder well, but few things surprise them. All of it is new to young children, after all, and equally gratuitous.”

Wells Children Young Wonder Surprise Young Children Sense Of Wonder

Book:An American Childhood

Source: An American Childhood

“Like everyone in his right mind, I feared Santa Claus.”

Mind Christmas Santa Santa Claus

Book:Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Source: Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

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