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Edith Sitwell

December 9th, 2005 by Laura Moncur in Biography

View book details at AmazonOn this day in 1964, Edith Sitwell died at the age of 77. She had been “an unpopular electric eel” among the boring pool of “catfish” poets. Wikipedia has a biography of her life.

Some of my favorite quotes are from Edith Sitwell:

And of course, the inventive self-classification:

You can read all of Edith Sitwell’s Quotations here:

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