Edith Sitwell > Quotes

“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

“My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.”
― Edith Sitwell

“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.”
― 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

“I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it.”
― Edith Sitwell

“I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...but I am too busy thinking about myself.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Iam patient with stupidity but not those who are proud of it.”
― Edith Sitwell, I Live Under a Black Sun

“I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Said the lion to the lioness - "when you are amber dust -
No more a raging fire like the heat of the sun
(no liking but all lust) -
Remember still the flowering of the amber blood
and bone,
the rippling of bright muscles like
a sea,
Remember the rose-prickles of
bright paws
Though we shall mate no more
Till the fire of that sun
and the moon -
Cold bone are one"

Said the skeleton lying upon the
sands of time -
"The great gold planet that
is the mourning heat
of the sun
Is greater than all gold, more powerful
Than the tawny body of a lion that fire
consumes
Like all that grows or leaps...so
is the heart.

More powerful than all dust. Once
I was hercules
Or Samson, strong as the pillars of the
seas:
But the flames of the heart
Consumed me, and
the mind
Is but a foolish wind.”
― Edith Sitwell

“Poetry is the deification of reality.”
― Edith Sitwell