Comfort Quote by Edith Sitwell

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

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

“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

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

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

— Edith Sitwell

“Said the lion to the lioness - "when you are amber dust - No more a raging fire like the heat of the sun…

— Edith Sitwell

“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

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

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.

— Edith Sitwell

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

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

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