They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he s… - Osbert Sitwell

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They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.

Osbert Sitwell

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Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, Bt. (6 December 1892 – 4 May 1969) was an English poet, novelist, memoirist and controversialist on behalf of the arts. Osbert Sitwell, his brother Sacheverell and his sister Edith were among the most conspicuous figures in the British artistic world of the 1920s and 1930s.

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Birth Name: Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

Native Name: Sir Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell, 5th Baronet • Sir Osbert Sitwell, Bt

Alternative Names: Capt. Sir [Francis] Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell

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The British bourgeoisie
Is not born
And does not die,
But, if it is ill,
It has a frightened look in its eyes.

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space.

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,
That scarlet tree within, which has the power
To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.

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