I appreciate all my enemies

English writer Sir Osbert Sitwell died today in 1969. He was the brother of Dame Edith Sitwell. He wrote a five-volume appreciation of his eccentric family. He once said:

"It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time."

And also:

"In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us," he wrote.

Today’s Deathless Verse:

Time, that assassin and thief,

  Brings everyone to grief;

It isn’t impetuous, or rash –

  Never impatient or brash;

In hatching its dirty deeds,

  It has all of itself it needs.