Quote #3

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.

More from Edith Sitwell

  1. I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty... But I am too busy thinking about myself.
  2. My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
  3. Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad - we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand wi…
  4. As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. it is the deification of reality. It should make our days holy to us. The poet should s…
  5. The poet is a brother speaking to a brother of 'a moment of their other lives' - a moment that had been buried beneath the dust of the busy…
  6. I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
  7. The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to att…
  8. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

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