Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells .
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The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. Go to Quote / Comment
Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us 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. Go to Quote / Comment
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented. Go to Quote / Comment
The living blind and seeing Dead together lie As if in love . . . There was no more hating then,... Go to Quote / Comment
I am patient with stupidity, but not with those who are proud of it. Go to Quote / Comment