Commonplace Book

'By the way, I did not praise Mrs Meynell. Please erase that. She is hopelessly bad. And I do not remember praising Dowson. He is limp and lifeless.
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...Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter'.
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...Vachel Lindsay is, technically, a simply horrible poet, and the Congo poem is the worst of the lot. (I like The Golden Whales of California, but his technique is always ghastly. He has had no influence on me whatever.)'

from a letter to Geoffrey Singleton, 11 July 1955 in Selected Letters 1919-1964 by Edith Sitwell