Quotes by Edith Sitwell

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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself. — Edith Sitwell
Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of geni — Edith Sitwell
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence. — Edith Sitwell
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent. — Edith Sitwell
Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near;Big questions bruised my mind but still I letSmall answers be a bullw — Edith Sitwell
All day long you sit and sew,Stitch life down for fear it grow,Stitch life down for fear we guessAt the hidden ugliness. — Edith Sitwell
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints — Edith Sitwell
The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dustThe universe, for fear it gainIts freedom from my cube of brain — Edith Sitwell
Solo For Ear-Trumpet The carriage brushes through the brightLeaves (violent jets from life to light);Strong polished spe — Edith Sitwell
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fir — Edith Sitwell
Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a da — Edith Sitwell
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 cat — Edith Sitwell
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. — Edith Sitwell
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. I — Edith Sitwell
I am dying but otherwise I am quite well. — Edith Sitwell
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a P — Edith Sitwell
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. — Edith Sitwell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth. — Edith Sitwell
Poetry is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell