Edith Sitwell - Time Quotes

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Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for talk beside the fire; it is the time for home.

Edith Sitwell

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

Edith Sitwell

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

Edith Sitwell

Remember only this of our hopeless love
That never till Time is done
Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one.

Edith Sitwell

What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

Edith Sitwell

The busy chatter of the heat
Shrilled like a parakeet;
And shuddering at the noonday light
The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face,
Or fawned with simian grace
Round booths with many a hard bright toy
And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown
That, jangling, whistled down
Young cherubs hidden in the guise
Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear,
Lest any dream that fare
— Bright pilgrim — past our ken, should see
Hints of Reality.

Edith Sitwell