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.
women piano government
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
art women inspiration
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
women eels people
I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish.
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 ...
beautiful writing virginia
Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
happiness mean would-be
By 'happiness' I do not mean worldly success or outside approval, though it would be priggish to deny that both these things are most agreeable. I mean the inner consciousness, the inner conviction that one is doing well the thing that one is best fitted to do by nature.