Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and h… - Edith Sitwell

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Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints

Edith Sitwell

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About Edith Sitwell

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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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

The living blind and seeing Dead together lie
As if in love . . . There was no more hating then,
And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.