Edith Sitwell

Poet

1887-09-07 – 1964-12-09

Edith Sitwell was an English poet and critic associated with modernist literature in the early twentieth century.

Quotes by Edith Sitwell

I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
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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.
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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.
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I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
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I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
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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.
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I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... but I am too busy thinking about myself.
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What an artist is for is to tell us what we see but do not know that we see.
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If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?
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I am an electric eel in a pool of catfish.
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
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My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music and silence.
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