Edith Sitwell Quotes About Poetry

Quotes about: Poetry

• As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Reality, Poetry

  "Young Poets". Edith Sitwell's lecture (1957); later published in "Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961" (p. 56), 1964.

• The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

  Edith Sitwell

  Men, Poetry, Speak

  "The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 247), 1992.

• Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a very fine poet, or else that it was written by someone who is not a poet at all. In the case of the former, the lines, the images, though they are inherent in each other, leap up and give one this shock of delight. In the case of the latter, they lie flat on the page, never having lived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Lying, Book, Giving

• I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

  Edith Sitwell

  Thinking, Poetry, Greed

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), John Lehmann, Derek Parker (1970). “Selected letters”, MacMillan

• If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.

  Edith Sitwell

  Children, Poetry, Ordinary

• it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

  Edith Sitwell

  Poetry, Would Be, Use

• All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

  Edith Sitwell

  Heart, Poetry, Great Poet

• 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.

  Edith Sitwell

  Law, Poetry, Age

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