Edith Sitwell Quotes

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• Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
• A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
• It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays.
• Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home.
• Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
• 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…
• There is no truth. Only points of view.
• Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the…
• 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…
• My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
• 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.
• Most women dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous reincarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
• "It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."
• What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
• 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…
• Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.
• Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire:…
• [History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust.
• As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The…
• If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

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