List of Edith Sitwell Quotes

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Edith Sitwell
Total Quotes 77
The last faint spark in the self-murdered heart, the wounds of the sad uncomprehending dark, the wounds of the baited bear,-- the blind and weeping bear whom the keepers beat on his helpless flesh . . . the tears of the hunted hare.
Heart Dark Self
White as a winding sheet, masks blowing down the street: moscow, paris london, vienna - all are undone. the drums of death are mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, mumbling, rumbling, and tumbling, the world's floors are quaking, crumbling and breaking.
Paris White Vienna
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.
Women Dresses Next
The light would show (if it could harden) eternities of kitchen garden
Garden Light Kitchen
I may say that i think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.
Thinking Poetry Greed
The ghost of the heart of manred cain and the more murderous brain of man, still redder nero that conceived the death of his mother earth, and tore her womb, to know the place where he was conceived.
Mother Heart Men
Virginia woolf, i enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. i considered her 'a beautiful little knitter.
Beautiful Writing Virginia
Your soul: pure glucose edged with hints of tentative and half-soiled tints
Soul Glucose Hints
The busy chatter of the heat shrilled like a parakeet; and shuddering at the noonday light the dust lay dead and white as powder on a mummy's face, or fawned with simian grace round booths with many a hard bright toy and wooden brittle joy: the cap and bells of time the clown that, jangling, whistled down young cherubs hidden in the guise of every bird that flies; and star-bright masks for youth to wear, lest any dream that fare bright pilgrim past our ken, should see hints of reality.
Dream Stars Past
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.
Rain Fall Loss
What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
Art Artist Knows
The trouble with most englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.
Dresses Attention Want
  • Born: September 7, 1887
  • Died: December 9, 1964
  • Occupation: Poet
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