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Dame Edith SitwellDame Edith Sitwell

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I kept my answers small and kept them near;

Big questions bruised my mind but still I let

Small answers be a bullwark to my fear.The huge abstractions I kept from the light;

Small things I handled and caressed and loved.

I let the stars assume the whole of night.But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacity

Shouted to be acknowledged and believed.Even when all small answers build up to

Protection of my spirit, still I hear

Big answers striving for their overthrow.And all the great conclusions coming near.

Dame Edith Sitwell
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Dame Edith Sitwell

1887 - 1964/EnglishEdith Sitwell was born in Scarborough, Yorkshire, of aristocratic but eccentric parentage of Lord George Sitwell and ex-socialite Lady Ida Sitwell of Renishaw Hall. She would later claim that she was descended from the Plantagenets. She had…

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