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
the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.
animal being-human humans
I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.
death awful nuisance
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
dream fashion three
I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
people dames virtue
People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
lying hate heart
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.
eels pool catfish
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.