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Edith Sitwell

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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


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Poetry is the deification of reality.


— Edith Sitwell


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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


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


— Edith Sitwell


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Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.


— Edith Sitwell


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


— Edith Sitwell


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


— Edith Sitwell


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I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.


— Edith Sitwell


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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


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Did you know about Edith Sitwell?

Her relationship with her parents was stormy at best not least because her father made her undertake a "cure" for her supposed spinal deformation involving locking her into an iron frame. In 1929 Edith Sitwell publiEdith Sitwelld Gold Coast Customs a poem about the artificiality of human behaviour and the barbarism that lies beneath the surface. The poems Edith Sitwell wrote during the war brought her back before the public.

With her dramatic style and exotic costumes Edith Sitwell was sometimes labelled a poseur but her work was also praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. Sitwell publiEdith Sitwelld poetry continuously from 1913 some of it abstract and set to music. Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic eldest of the three literary Sitwells.

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