“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.”
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
“I have too often contented myself with being a hasty improviser: I have spent too much time exploring fleeting effects of the sky and sea.”
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