it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.
Edith SitwellThe trouble about most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation, or hope to be one in the next.
Edith SitwellThe child and the great artist -- these alone receive the sensation fresh as it was at the beginning of the world.
Edith Sitwell