Edith Sitwell Short Quotes

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My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

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Lily O'Grady,
Silly and shady,
Longing to be
A lazy lady.

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People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

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I am as unpopular as an electric eel in a pool of flatfish.

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All ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin.

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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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Jane, Jane,
Tall as a crane,
The morning light creaks down again.

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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.

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Cameras have arisen in our midst like a new race of mechanical ghouls.

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

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Mother or Murderer, you have
given or taken life —
Now all is one!

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The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

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The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind
Is but a foolish wind.

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One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.

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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

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

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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

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

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

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In the great gardens, after bright spring rain,
We find sweet innocence come once again.

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Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

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

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

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

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I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed — it is, indeed, unavoidable.

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She wore an extraordinary amount of clothes in some places and — it being the evening — none in others.

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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.

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The child and the great artist — these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.

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