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
home winter weather
Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
dream stars past
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.
believe writing virginia
Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.
mean feelings miserable
One's own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable.
time thinking modesty
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
sarcastic reading writing
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
women piano government
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
being-yourself successful secret
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekinese?
art women inspiration
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
encouragement opinion flattery
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
truth views point-of-view
There is no truth. Only points of view.
children poetry would-be
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
art elements great-art
All great art contains an element of the irrational.
children artist world
The child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.