Edith Sitwell
Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBEwas a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth7 September 1877
women next dresses
Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
life hymns glory
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
history sawdust mills
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
art artist knows
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
thinking frustration envy
When we think of cruelty, we must try to remember the stupidity, the envy, the frustration from which it has arisen.
reality men use
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.
trying looks pekingese
If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
men thinking smell
I'm not the man to balk at a low smell, I 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.
soul half glucose
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints Of tentative and half-soiled tints
taken fire discipline
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
art reality poetry
Poetry is the deification of reality.
men poetry speak
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
taste vices worst
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
truth believe media-control
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.