Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBEwas a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 September 1877
men thinking smell
I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
thinking frustration envy
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
art artist knows
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
history sawdust mills
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
heart eye secret
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.
dream reality light
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
life hymns glory
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
women next dresses
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
art men doe
"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
law poetry age
In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature ...
heart poetry great-poet
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...
garden light kitchen
The light would show (if it could harden) Eternities of kitchen garden
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
mother simple men
Picasso was a delightful, kindly, friendly, simple little man. When I met him he was extremely excited and overjoyed that his mother-in-law had just died, and he was looking forward to the funeral.