Edith Sitwell: Trending quotes (page 2)
Edith Sitwell trending quotes. Read the latest quotes in collection“Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.”
Source: Taken Care Of (1965), Ch. 19
As quoted in Edith Sitwell: Fire of the Mind : an Anthology (1976) by Elizabeth Salter, p. 176
“My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.”
"Some notes on my poetry" Collected Poems (1957)
“A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.”
As quoted in Writers on Writing (1986) by Jon Winokur, p. 24
Source: Taken Care Of (1965), Ch. 15
“The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.”
Preface
Taken Care Of (1965)
Still Falls the Rain (1940)
“It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.”
As quoted in The Reader's Digest Great Encyclopedic Dictionary Special Supplement (1966), p. 2047
“The flames of the heart consumed me, and the mind
Is but a foolish wind.”
Green Song & Other Poems (1944), Heart and Mind
This is from the poem "Answers" by Elizabeth Jennings, which has wrongly been attributed to Sitwell at a few sites on the internet.
Misattributed
Green Song & Other Poems (1944), Heart and Mind
“Mother or Murderer, you have
given or taken life —
Now all is one!”
"Three Poems of the Atomic Bomb: Dirge for the New Sunrise"
The Canticle of the Rose (1949)
“I wouldn't dream of following a fashion… how could one be a different person every three months?”
Source: The Last Years of a Rebel (1967), p. 24
Lecture "Young Poets" (1957) published in Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961 (1964), p. 56
Variants:
Poetry is the deification of reality.
As quoted in Life magazine (4 January 1963)
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
As quoted in The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women (1992) by Rosalie Maggio, p. 247
As quoted in 20,000 Quips & Quotes (1995) by Evan Esa
“I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.”
Life magazine (4 January 1963) attributed variant: 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 of goldfish.