Edith Sitwell Quotes
Top 53 wise famous quotes and sayings by Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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 may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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 ...
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
The child and the great artist
these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...
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.
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?
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.
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.
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.
It is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
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.
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.