“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.” ~Dame Edith Sitwell I would like to add to that quote: winter is a time for a good book; which leads me to a book which has crossed my…
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Dame Edith Sitwell in the Fall
“My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.” ~Dame Edith Sitwell “Poetry ennobles the heart and the eyes, and unveils the meaning of all things upon which the heart and the eyes dwell. It discovers the secret rays of the universe, and restores to us forgotten paradises.” ~Dame Edith Sitwell “The poet speaks to all men of…
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The Gem at the Bar
“The poet speaks to all men of that other life of theirs that they have smothered and forgotten.” Dame Edith Sitwell We were at a restaurant in the city of Pittsburgh the other night, and I happened to glance over at the bar. A person sitting there caught my eye: an elderly woman reading a book, breaking her reading only…
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Dame Edith Sitwell: A Walking Fire
“My poems are hymns of praise to the glory of life.” Dame Edith Sitwell The English poet Dame Edith Sitwell (b. 1887- d. 1964) might be categorized as “eccentric” if the negative connotations associated with the word might be removed, for in our world, where everyone seems determined to follow the crowd (of course, a normal human tendency, as the sheep of…
