Edith Sitwell

"I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty...But I am too busy thinking about myself."

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

"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."

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

"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 t…"

"I'm afraid I'm being an awful nuisance."

"Let us speak of our madness. We are always being called mad. If we are mad — we and our brothers in America who are walking hand in hand with us in the vanguard of progress — at least we are mad in co…"

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