Edith Sitwell Quotes about Poetry

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.

Men, Poetry, Speak

"The Beacon Book of Quotations by Women" by Rosalie Maggio, (p. 247), 1992.

All great poetry is dipped in the dyes of the heart.

Heart, Poetry, Great Poet

In the Augustan age ... poetry was ... the sister of architecture; with the romantics, and their heightened vowel-sense, resulting in different melodic lines, she became the sister of music; in the present day, she appears like the sister of horticulture, each poem growing according to the law of its own nature.

Edith Sitwell

Law, Poetry, Age

As for the usefulness of poetry, its uses are many. It is the deification of reality.

Edith Sitwell

Art, Reality, Poetry

"Young Poets". Edith Sitwell's lecture (1957); later published in "Mightier Than the Sword: The P.E.N. Hermon Ould Memorial Lectures, 1953-1961" (p. 56), 1964.