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The terrible newly imported American doctrine that everyone ought to do something. — Osbert Sitwell

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
Of tentative and half-soiled tints — Edith Sitwell

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

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell

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

Poetry is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell

We attended stables, as we attended church, in our best clothes, thereby no doubt showing the degree of respect due to horses. — Osbert Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. — Edith Sitwell

When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen. — Edith Sitwell

The Rich Man's Banquet, which was to last for a decade, had now begun: the feast, it was recognised, went to the greediest. — Osbert Sitwell

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. — Edith Sitwell

I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance. — Edith Sitwell

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell

People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess. — Edith Sitwell

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. — Edith Sitwell

The child and the great artist
these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world. — Edith Sitwell

I'm dying, but otherwise I'm in very good health. — Edith Sitwell

The artist, like the idiot or clown, sits on the edge of the world, and a push may send him over it. — Osbert Sitwell

My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton. — Osbert Sitwell

For forty days he went out into the desert - and never shot anything [on Jesus] — Osbert Sitwell

I have always said that if I were a rich man, I would employ a professional praiser. — Osbert Sitwell

Poetry is like fish: if it's fresh, it's good; if it's stale, it's bad; and if you're not certain, try it on the cat. — Osbert Sitwell

For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,That scarlet tree within, which has the powerTo make dull words bud forth and burst in flower. — Osbert Sitwell

Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home. — Edith Sitwell

"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees." — Edith Sitwell

I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. — Edith Sitwell

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

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty ... But I am too busy thinking about myself. — Edith Sitwell

Everywhere men have unlocked the prisoners within, and from under the disguising skins the apes have leapt joyfully out. — Osbert Sitwell

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

All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin. — Edith Sitwell

Hell has a climate, but no situation. It lies in the spirit, and not in space. — Osbert Sitwell

It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. — Edith Sitwell

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

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

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter. — Edith Sitwell

One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable. — Edith Sitwell

The arts are life accelerated and concentrated. — Edith Sitwell

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ... — Edith Sitwell

Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere. — Edith Sitwell

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm. — Edith Sitwell

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

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it. — Edith Sitwell

A golf course outside a big town serves an excellent purpose in that it segregates, as though a concentration camp, all the idle and idiot well-to-do. — Osbert Sitwell

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish. — Edith Sitwell

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell

The poet is the complete lover of mankind. — Edith Sitwell

Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next. — Edith Sitwell

The light would show (if it could harden)
Eternities of kitchen garden — Edith Sitwell

All great art contains an element of the irrational. — Edith Sitwell

My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life. — Edith Sitwell

I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art. — Edith Sitwell

Let the ravioli simmer for the time it takes to say two Lord's Prayers. — Martino De Rossi C O William Sitwell

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

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. — Edith Sitwell

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

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

I wouldn't dream of following a fashion ... how could one be a different person every three months? — Edith Sitwell

There is no truth. Only points of view. — Edith Sitwell

Blood is that fragile scarlet tree we carry within us. — Osbert Sitwell

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. — Edith Sitwell

[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. — Edith Sitwell

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness. — Edith Sitwell

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese? — Edith Sitwell

In reality, killing time is only the name for another of the multifarious ways by which Time kills us. — Osbert Sitwell

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see. — Edith Sitwell

It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time. — Osbert Sitwell

Edith Sitwell's interest in art was largely confined to portraits of herself. — John Fowles

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