Osbert Sitwell citations

Francis Osbert Sacheverell Sitwell , 5e baronnet, est un poète anglais.

✵ 6. décembre 1892 – 4. mai 1969
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Osbert Sitwell: Citations en anglais

“How simple-minded of the Germans to imagine that we British could be cowed by the destruction of our ancient monuments! As though any havoc of the German bombs could possibly equal the things we have done ourselves!”

Osbert Sitwell

Quoted by George Orwell in Tribune, December 31, 1943.
Referring to the Baedeker Blitz: a series of German air raids on English cities of historic and architectural interest.

“They loved him, I think, because, with all his merits, he showed them to be rich: looking at his portraits, they understood at last how rich they really were.”

Osbert Sitwell

Left Hand, Right Hand!, Bk. II, ch. 6.
Of the portrait-painter John Singer Sargent's relationship with his clients.

“For Poetry is the wisdom of the blood,
That scarlet tree within, which has the power
To make dull words bud forth and burst in flower.”

Osbert Sitwell

"When First the Poets Sung", line 47.
These lines were repeatedly drawn on by Sitwell in his later works.

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