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Edith Sitwell quotes: Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints
Edith Sitwell quotes: I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish. I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ... The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking fire, I am all leaves ...
Edith Sitwell quotes: Poetry is the deification of reality. Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell quotes: When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
Edith Sitwell quotes: My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
Edith Sitwell quotes: A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell quotes: People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess. People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The child and the great artist these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. The child and the great artist
these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health. I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ... Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...
Edith Sitwell quotes: All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin. All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross. Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell quotes: "It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees." "It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
Edith Sitwell quotes: I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell quotes: It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese? Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?
Edith Sitwell quotes: The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world. The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of "a moment of their other lives" a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy world.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter. Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
Edith Sitwell quotes: One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable. One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The arts are life accelerated and concentrated. The arts are life accelerated and concentrated.
Edith Sitwell quotes: All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ... All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...
Edith Sitwell quotes: Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm. Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.
Edith Sitwell quotes: By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it. By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
Edith Sitwell quotes: 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. 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 quotes: It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion. It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
Edith Sitwell quotes: If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The poet is the complete lover of mankind. The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next. Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The light would show (if it could harden)Eternities of kitchen garden The light would show (if it could harden)
Eternities of kitchen garden
Edith Sitwell quotes: All great art contains an element of the irrational. All great art contains an element of the irrational.
Edith Sitwell quotes: My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since. Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home. Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell quotes: There is no truth. Only points of view. There is no truth. Only points of view.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell quotes: [History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. [History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell quotes: Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell quotes: If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Edith Sitwell quotes: What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Edith Sitwell quotes: The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves. The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell quotes: I wouldn't dream of following a fashion ... how could one be a different person every three months? I wouldn't dream of following a fashion ... how could one be a different person every three months?

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