British - Poet | September 7, 1887 - December 9, 1964
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
PatienceI AmStupidityProudWho
I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
I AmPoolCatfishUnpopularElectric
My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.
MusicSilenceListeningReading
Poetry is the deification of reality.
PoetryReality
The public will believe anything, so long as it is not founded on truth.
TruthBelieveLongWillAnything
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.
WaterBabyNeverHotOutGet
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.
RainManWorldBlackBlindLoss
Good taste is the worst vice ever invented.
GoodWorstTasteViceGood Taste
The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation they do not want to attract attention.
DressAttentionTroubleWantWill
I am one of those unhappy persons who inspire bores to the greatest flights of art.
ArtI AmInspireUnhappyGreatest
The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.
LifeMenForgottenPoetSpeaks
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.
HopeDisciplineFireI AmStepWant
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