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Edith Sitwell

December 9th, 2005 by Laura Moncur in Biography

View book details at AmazonOn this day in 1964, Edith Sitwell died at the age of 77. She had been “an unpopular electric eel” among the boring pool of “catfish” poets. Wikipedia has a biography of her life.

Some of my favorite quotes are from Edith Sitwell:

Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd.
Edith Sitwell
I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.
Edith Sitwell
I have often wished I had time to cultivate modesty… But I am too busy thinking about myself.
Edith Sitwell, As quoted in The Observer (30 April 1950)
Poetry is the deification of reality.
Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63

And of course, the inventive self-classification:

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.
Edith Sitwell, Life magazine, 01-04-63

You can read all of Edith Sitwell’s Quotations here:

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