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
art women inspiration
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
children poetry would-be
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
art elements great-art
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
children artist world
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
god reality vulgarity-is
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
home winter hands
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.
dream reality rhythm
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
women eels people
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.
funny music reading
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
patience stupid ignorance
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
spring passion fire
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 ...
encouragement opinion flattery
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.
truth views point-of-view
There is no truth. Only points of view.
sarcastic reading writing
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.