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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.

Edith Sitwell
Heart, Eye, Secret

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

Edith Sitwell
Heart, Poetry, Great Poet

But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran Carrying the world's weight of the world's filth And the filth in the heart of Man-- Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat than that of the Sun.

Edith Sitwell
Heart, Men, Evil
Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one

Edith Sitwell
Lonely, Kings, Heart
Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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.

Edith Sitwell
Hate, Lying, Heart
Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

Edith Sitwell
Spring, Heart, Light
Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat On his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.

Edith Sitwell
Heart, Dark, Self
Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

The ghost of the heart of manred Cain And the more murderous brain Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death Of his mother Earth, and tore Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

Edith Sitwell
Mother, Heart, Men
Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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