Edith Sitwell Quotes - Page 3

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• the arts are life accelerated and concentrated.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.130, A&C Black

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• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

  Edith Sitwell

  Life, Art, Hymns

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• 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

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• The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dresses, Attention, Want

  "Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mind : an Anthology" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 176), 1976.

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• 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.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Reality, Light

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.110, A&C Black

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• What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

  Edith Sitwell

  Art, Artist, Knows

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,
  I'm not the man to insist on asphodel.
  This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think?
  It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.

  Edith Sitwell

  Men, Thinking, Smell

  "Taken Care Of" by Edith Sitwell, (p. 118), 1965.

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• If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

  Edith Sitwell

  Trying, Looks, Pekingese

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• The light would show (if it could harden)
  Eternities of kitchen garden

  Edith Sitwell

  Garden, Light, Kitchen

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.67, A&C Black

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• 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.

  Edith Sitwell

  Hate, Lying, Heart

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Fashion, Different

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 24), 1967.

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• The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I am told they were) is that he had no sense of touch whatsoever. Nothing made any impression on his skin. He could feel neither the shape nor the texture of a poem with his hands.

  Edith Sitwell

  Ideas, Hands, Feelings

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1930). “Ser. Milton and the Augustan Age”

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• What the reporters are like! They are mad with excitement at the thought of my approaching demise. Kind Sister Farquhar, my nurse, spends much of her time in throwing them downstairs. But one got in the other day, and asked me if I mind the fact that I must die.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nurse, Mad, Mind

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

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• By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.

  Edith Sitwell

  Nature, Years, Vacuums

  Edith Sitwell (2011). “Taken Care Of: An Autobiography”, p.27, A&C Black

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• People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.

  Edith Sitwell

  People, Dames, Virtue

  "The Last Years of a Rebel : A Memoir of Edith Sitwell" by Elizabeth Salter, (p. 24), 1967.

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• Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.

  Edith Sitwell

  Baby, Water, Hot

  As quoted in "20,000 Quips & Quotes" by Evan Esa, 1995.

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• Our hearts seemed safe in our breasts and sang to the Light The marrow in the bone We dreamed was safe. . . the blood in the veins, the sap in the tree Were springs of Deity.

  Edith Sitwell

  Spring, Heart, Light

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.

  Edith Sitwell

  Alcohol, Littles, Drink

  Edith Sitwell, Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1987). “Façade”, Ronald P Frye & Co

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• The busy chatter of the heat Shrilled like a parakeet; And shuddering at the noonday light The dust lay dead and white As powder on a mummy's face, Or fawned with simian grace Round booths with many a hard bright toy And wooden brittle joy: The cap and bells of Time the Clown That, jangling, whistled down Young cherubs hidden in the guise Of every bird that flies; And star-bright masks for youth to wear, Lest any dream that fare Bright pilgrim past our ken, should see Hints of Reality.

  Edith Sitwell

  Dream, Stars, Past

  Edith Sitwell (Dame) (1949). “The canticle of the rose: poems: 1917-1949”

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• Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

  Edith Sitwell

  Rain, Fall, Loss

  "Still Falls the Rain" l. 1 (1942)

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• Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints
  Of tentative and half-soiled tints

  Edith Sitwell

  Soul, Glucose, Hints

  Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph

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• The ghost of the heart of manred Cain
  And the more murderous brain
  Of Man, still redder Nero that conceived the death
  Of his mother Earth, and tore
  Her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.

  Edith Sitwell

  Mother, Heart, Men

  Dame Edith Sitwell (1952). “Selected Poems”

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• White as a winding sheet,
  Masks blowing down the street:
  Moscow, Paris London, Vienna - all are undone.
  The drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
  Mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling,
  The world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.

  Edith Sitwell

  Paris, White, Vienna

  "Façades". Book by Edith Sitwell, 1922.

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• 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

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• The trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.

  Edith Sitwell

  Women, Dresses, Next

  "Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind: an anthology".

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