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
lovers poet mankind
The poet is the complete lover of mankind.
law poetry age
In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature ...
heart poetry great-poet
All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart ...
poetry use would-be
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
thinking greed poetry
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
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.
children poetry would-be
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.
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.