5 Edith Sitwell Quotes on Poetry

Edith Sitwell quotes on poetry

4. My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.

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.

6. 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 world.

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.

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