William Henry Hudson
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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess.
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About the Edith Sitwell
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London’s poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Sitwell published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.
16 Quotes by Edith Sitwell
- 1.
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 2.
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 3.
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 SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 4.
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… but I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 5.
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 6.
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 7.
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 8.
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 9.
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 10.
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 11.
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 SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 12.
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 13.
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 14.
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 15.
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)
- 16.
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 SitwellBritish poet (1887-1964)