I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. - Edith Sitwell

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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

Edith Sitwell

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Edith Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was an English poet and critic.

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Alternative Names: Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell • Edith Louisa Sitwell • Dame Edith Sitwell • Miss Edith • Dame Edith (Louisa) Sitwell

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The rhythms of our lives
Are those of the ripening, dying of the seasons

And your arms and your breasts are my Rivers of Life

The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" — a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. - Edith Sitwell

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