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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
Edith Sitwell
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
Edith Sitwell
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
Edith Sitwell
The aim of flattery is to soothe and encourage us by assuring us of the truth of an opinion we have already formed about ourselves.
Edith Sitwell
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.
Edith Sitwell
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell
A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
Edith Sitwell
I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
Edith Sitwell
My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
Edith Sitwell
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell
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.
Edith Sitwell
It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.
Edith Sitwell
I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
Edith Sitwell
I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
Edith Sitwell
Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.
Edith Sitwell
I have taken this step because I want the discipline, the fire and the authority of the Church. I am hopelessly unworthy of it, but I hope to become worthy.
Edith Sitwell
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
Edith Sitwell
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me.
Edith Sitwell
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.
Edith Sitwell
Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
Edith Sitwell
As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Edith Sitwell
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