Edith Sitwell Quotes

Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.

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

I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.

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.

Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The 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.

What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

There is no truth. Only points of view.

Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.

The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.

Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.