6 Edith Sitwell Quotes on Art

Edith Sitwell quotes on art

5. 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 speak to all men, for a moment, of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

13. I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.

17. Within your magic web of hair, lies furled The fire and splendour of the ancient world; The dire gold of the comet's wind-blown hair; The songs that turned to gold the evening air When all the stars of heaven sang for joy.

39. Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.

42. It is a part of the poet's work to show each man what he sees but does not know he sees.

45. Each of them is inhabited by a bland demon, as the German metaphysicians used to call that which gets into a man and makes him creative, not so forcibly that it turns them away from criticism, but valid enough to give them the right to speak with the authority of artists.