#edith sitwell

[gatabella]

Marilyn Monroe during her meeting with Dame Edith Sitwell, 1953

"In private she was not in the least what her calumniators would have wished her to be. She was very quiet, had a great natural dignity, and was extremely intelligent. She was also exceedingly sensitive. In repose her face was at moments strangely, prophetically tragic, like the face of a beautiful ghost - a little spring ghost, an innocent fertility daemon, the vegetation spirit that was Ophelia - a visitor from some other plane; only here visiting."

-Dame Edith Sitwell, British poet

[petaltexturedskies]

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

Edith Sitwell

[squeakowl]

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[maslimanny]

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...!

Edith Sitwell

[trees-and-planets]

— Edith Sitwell, from "Fire of the Mind: The Complete Anthology of E. S.,"

[davidhudson]

Edith Sitwell, September 7, 1887 – December 9, 1964.

Photo by Cecil Beaton.

[a-dove-is-a-glove]

"What renders a photograph surreal is its irrefutable pathos as a message from time past, and the concreteness of its intimations about social class."

"Photographs are, of course, artifacts. But their appeal is that they also seem, in a world littered with photographic relics, to have the status of found objects—unpremeditated slices of the world. Thus, they trade simultaneously on the prestige of art and the magic of the real. They are clouds of fantasy and pellets of information."

Susan Sontag "On Photography"

[dabiconcordia]

“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.” ― Edith Sitwell