As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell.… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
Isn't it curious how one has only to open a book of verse to realise immediately that it was written by a… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share Image
The reason why Matthew Arnold, to my feeling, fails entirely as a poet (though no doubt his ideas were good - at least, I… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
The great sins and fires break out of me like the terrible leaves from the bough in the violent spring. I am a walking… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
“Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
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… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
“Said the lion to the lioness - "when you are amber dust - No more a raging fire like the heat of the sun… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
“The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dust The universe, for fear it gain Its freedom from my cube of brain.… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about… — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits. — Edith Sitwell Copy Share
