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
sleep reality sea
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
dream reality light
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch.
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.
art reality poetry
Poetry is the deification of reality.
god reality vulgarity-is
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
dream reality rhythm
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
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.
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 ...