Quotes by : Edith Sitwell

Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour....

Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints

All day long you sit and sew,Stitch life down for fear it grow,Stitch life down for fear we guessAt the....

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits.

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

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try....

Solo For Ear-Trumpet The carriage brushes through the brightLeaves (violent jets from life to light);Strong....

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