Edith Sitwell Poetry Quotations

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 ...

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

it is as unseeing to ask what is the use of poetry as it would be to ask what is the use of religion.

I may say that I think greed about poetry is the only permissible greed - it is, indeed, unavoidable.

Poetry is the deification of reality.

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

If certain critics and poetasters had their way, 'Ordinary Piety' and its child, Dullness, would be the masters of poetry.