Quote #38

I am resigned to the fact that people who don't know me loathe me. Perhaps it is because I am a woman writing poetry. It must be annoying to a man who wants to write to see this horrid old lady who can.

More from Edith Sitwell

  1. 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.
  2. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
  3. I wouldn't dream of following a fashion... how could one be a different person every three months?
  4. I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance.
  5. People are usually made Dames for virtues I do not possess.
  6. Small things I handled and caressed and loved. I let the stars assume the whole of night. But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my…
  7. I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
  8. It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

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