Edith Sitwell - Moment Quotes

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What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear.

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

I do not want Miss Mannin's feelings to be hurt by the fact that I have never heard of her... At the moment I am debarred from the pleasure of putting her in her place by the fact that she has not got one.

Edith Sitwell

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Edith Sitwell