Mr Lewis’s pictures appeared, as a very great painter said to me, to have been painted by a mailed fist in a cotton glove.
Edith Sitwell Quotes
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
Similar Quotes
I thought narcissism meant you loved yourself. Then someone told me there is a flip si...
- Emily LevineMay your life preach more loudly than your lips.
- William Ellery ChanningThe fullness of life is in the hazards of life.
- Edith HamiltonBad reviews come with everything. I've been getting them my whole life.
- Will FriedleI would like my life to be a statement of love and compassion-and where it isn't, that's w...
- Ram DassComments on: "Edith Sitwell Quotes: The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that..."
| Birth: | 7th September, 1887 |
| Death: | 9th December, 1964 |
| Nationality: | British |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell was born in Scarborough, North Yorkshire, U.K. She was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She published her first poem The Drowned Suns in the Daily Mirror in 1913. In 1929 she published Gold Coast Customs. Her only novel, I Live under a Black Sun, based on the life of Jonathan Swift, was published in 1937.
Share with your friends