Dame Edith Sitwell

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    I’m not the man to baulk at a low smell,
    I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.
    This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?
    It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
    Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    The living blind and seeing Dead together lie
    As if in love . . . There was no more hating then,
    And no more love; Gone is the heart of Man.
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    I’m not the man to baulk at a low smell,
    I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.
    This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?
    It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
    Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)

    You know, a dame with a rod is like a guy with a knitting needle.
    Geoffrey Homes (1902–1977)

    What I want to give in the theatre is beauty, that’s what I want to give.
    —Dame Edith Evans (1888–1976)

    But I saw the little-Ant men as they ran
    Carrying the world’s weight of the world’s filth
    And the filth in the heart of Man—
    Compressed till those lusts and greeds had a greater heat
    than that of the Sun.
    —Dame Edith Sitwell (1887–1964)