Heart Quotes by Edith Sitwell

8 Heart quotes by Edith Sitwell

Edith Sitwell’s style is unmistakably bold, and these eight snippets capture her inventive approach to the heart’s mysteries, offering a quick yet striking taste of her poetic voice.

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

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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. .…

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The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then, And…

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Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell.…

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“In private life she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet,…

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Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour…

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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…

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The last faint spark In the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, The wounds of the baited bear,-- The…

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