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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.
— 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
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
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
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
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My education [takes place] during the holidays from Eton.
— 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
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
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
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
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
— Edith Sitwell
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
— Edith Sitwell
Let the ravioli simmer for the time it takes to say two Lord's Prayers.
— Martino De Rossi C O William 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
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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
It is fatal to be appreciated in one's own time.
— Osbert Sitwell
