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1. "Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home." ~ Edith Sitwell

2. "I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it." ~ Edith Sitwell

3. "I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent." ~ Edith Sitwell

4. "The fusty showman fumbles, must Fit in a particle of dustThe universe, for fear it gainIts freedom from my cube of brain.Yet dust bears seeds that grow to graceBehind my crude-striped wooden faceAs I, a puppet tinsel-pinkLeap on my springs, learn how to think—Till like the trembling golden stalkOf some long-petalled star, I walkThrough the dark heavens, and the dewFalls on my eyes and sense thrills through." ~ Edith Sitwell

5. "Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near;Big questions bruised my mind but still I letSmall answers be a bullwark to my fear.The huge abstractions I kept from the light;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 life. Their great audacityShouted to be acknowledged and believed.Even when all small answers build up toProtection of my spirit, still I hearBig answers striving for their overthrow.And all the great conclusions coming near" ~ Edith Sitwell

6. "All day long you sit and sew,Stitch life down for fear it grow,Stitch life down for fear we guessAt the hidden ugliness.Dusty voice that throbs with heat,Hoping with your steel-thin beatTo put stitches in my mind,Make it tidy, make it kind,You shall not: I'll keep it freeThough you turn earth, sky and seaTo a patchwork quilt to keepYour mind snug and warm in sleep!" ~ Edith Sitwell

7. "Your soul: pure glucose edged with hintsOf tentative and half-soiled tints" ~ Edith Sitwell

8. "Solo For Ear-Trumpet The carriage brushes through the brightLeaves (violent jets from life to light);Strong polished speed is plunging, heavesBetween the showers of bright hot leavesThe window-glasses glaze our facesAnd jar them to the very basis — But they could never put a polishUpon my manners or abolishMy most distinct disinclinationFor calling on a rich relation!In her house — (bulwark built betweenThe life man lives and visions seen) — The sunlight hiccups white as chalk,Grown drunk with emptiness of talk,And silence hisses like a snake — Invertebrate and rattling ache….Then suddenly EternityDrowns all the houses like a seaAnd down the street the Trump of DoomBlares madly — shakes the drawing-roomWhere raw-edged shadows sting forlornAs dank dark nettles. Down the hornOf her ear-trumpet I conveyThe news that 'It is Judgment Day!''Speak louder: I don't catch, my dear.'I roared: 'It is the Trump we hear!''The What?' 'THE TRUMP!' 'I shall complain!…. the boy-scouts practising again." ~ Edith Sitwell

9. "My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence." ~ Edith Sitwell

10. "Good taste is the worst vice ever invented." ~ Edith Sitwell

11. "The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth." ~ Edith Sitwell

12. "I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish." ~ Edith Sitwell

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

14. "Still falls the rain - dark as the world of man, black as our loss - blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross." ~ Edith Sitwell

15. "Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since." ~ Edith Sitwell

16. "The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten." ~ Edith Sitwell

17. "Poetry is the deification of reality." ~ Edith Sitwell

18. "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." ~ Edith Sitwell

19. "Said the Sun to the Moon-'When you are but a lonely white crone,And I, a dead King in my golden armour somewhere in a dark wood,Remember only this of our hopeless loveThat never till Time is doneWill the fire of the heart and the fire of the mind be one" ~ Edith Sitwell

20. "I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish." ~ Edith Sitwell

21. "Eccentricity is not, as some would believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd." ~ Edith Sitwell

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