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Edith Sitwell Quotes: "it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion."

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?"

I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?




Edith Sitwell Quotes: "Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm."

Another little drink wouldn't do us any harm.



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it."

By the time I was eleven years old, I had been taught that nature, far from abhorring a Vacuum, positively adores it.




Edith Sitwell Quotes: "The poet is the complete lover of mankind."

The poet is the complete lover of mankind.



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink."

I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell, I'm not the man to insist on asphodel. This sounds like a He-fellow, don't you think? It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees."

It is part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.




Edith Sitwell Quotes: "Poetry is the deification of reality."

Poetry is the deification of reality.



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed in keeping rabbits."

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



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound why try to look like a Pekingese?"

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



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "I am dying but otherwise I am quite well."

I am dying but otherwise I am quite well.



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "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."

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 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."

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

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



Edith Sitwell Quotes: "I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself."

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