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Edith Sitwell Quotes

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Winter is the time for comfort - it is the time for home  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) The arts are life accelerated and concentrated  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Jane, jane, tall as a crane, the morning light creaks down again  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) 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 Quotes) Said the Sun to the Moon-‘When you are but a lonely white crone, And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood, Remember only this of our hopeless love That never till Time is done Will the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality. Rhythm might be described as, to the world of sound, what light is to the world of sight. It shapes and gives new meaning. Rhythm was described by Schopenhauer as melody deprived of its pitch  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) Virginia Woolf, I enjoyed talking to her, but thought nothing of her writing. I considered her ‘a beautiful little knitter  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) What is the special privilege of youth? It is, I think, the power of looking forward, the firm belief that the future holds something that is worth possessing, and that, therefore, one can let the present moment drop from one without regret and without fear  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) 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 catfish.  (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.  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) I’m dying, but otherwise I’m in very good health  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) One’s own surroundings means so much to one, when one is feeling miserable  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) ... all ugliness passes, and beauty endures, excepting of the skin  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) The poet is the complete lover of mankind  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) All great art contains an element of the irrational  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) There is no truth. Only points of view  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) Good taste is the worst vice ever invented  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) Another little drink wouldn’t do us any harm  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) I’m afraid I’m being an awful nuisance  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life  (Edith Sitwell Quotes) The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth  (Edith Sitwell Quotes)
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