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
art
the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.
art magic shapes
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity ...
art men doe
"It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
art artist knows
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
art reality poetry
Poetry is the deification of reality.
art women inspiration
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
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.
eels pool catfish
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
lying hate heart
The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.
people dames virtue
People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
dream fashion three
I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
death awful nuisance
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
animal being-human humans
I have never, in all my life, been so odious as to regard myself as 'superior' to any living being, human or animal. I just walked alone - as I have always walked alone.