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Men Quotes by Edith Sitwell
- "It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
- 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…
- The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
- I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you…
- Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon…
- Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and…
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