Edith Sitwell Quotes

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

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

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

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

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

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm 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.

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

Poetry is the deification of reality.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

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.

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.

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints

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