Edith Sitwell

"I wish the government would put a tax on pianos for the incompetent."

"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."

"I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of catfish."