Poetry is the deification of reality. – Edith Sitwell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it. – Edith Sitwell
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
It is hardly respectable to be good nowadays. – Edith Sitwell
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten. – Edith Sitwell
[History is] that terrible mill in which sawdust rejoins sawdust. – Edith Sitwell
