Quote #7

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

More from Edith Sitwell

  1. 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…
  2. 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…
  3. 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…
  4. My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
  5. My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.
  6. A great many people now reading and writing would be better employed keeping rabbits.
  7. 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 …
  8. 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?

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