AtomicQuote

Edith Sitwell Quote

Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near;Big questions bruised my mind but still I letSmall answers be a bullwark to my fear.The huge abstractions I kept from the light;Small things I handled and caressed and loved.I let the stars assume the whole of night.But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacityShouted to be acknowledged and believed.Even when all small answers build up toProtection of my spirit, still I hearBig answers striving for their overthrow.And all the great conclusions coming near

Edith Sitwell

Answers I kept my answers small and kept them near;Big questions bruised my mind but still I letSmall answers be a bullwark to my fear.The huge abstractions I kept from the light;Small things I handled and caressed and loved.I let the stars assume the whole of night.But the big answers clamoured to be moved Into my life. Their great audacityShouted to be acknowledged and believed.Even when all small answers build up toProtection of my spirit, still I hearBig answers striving for their overthrow.And all the great conclusions coming near

Tags: answers, poem

Related Quotes

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Dejan Stojanovic

He had an answer to almost everything and he retired at an early age.

Tags: age, answer, answers, dejan stojanovic, early age, literature, poetry, retirement, thoughts, wisdom

Key the mind, and set the soul free.

Anthony Liccione

Key the mind, and set the soul free.

Tags: answers, barriers, beliefs, caged, captured, dream, enslaved, eternity, fear, fly

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

Anthony Liccione

They have their opinions, but we have the answers.

Tags: answers, fact, fancy, guess, hypothesis, judging, notion, opinions, point of view, prove

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

Amit Kalantri

Ability to find the answers is more important than ability to know the answers.

Tags: ability, advertisement, amit kalantri, amit kalantri writer, answers, catch line, catchphrase, curiosity, explorer, find answers

Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very...

TemitOpe Ibrahim

Sometimes we pray earnestly, other times we only make a slight mention of a thing and with great expectation, we await the answers to our request. Yet, we are blown away at the fulfillment of the very...

Tags: answers, blown away, earnest, expectation, fulfillment, god, inspirational, mercy, pray, prayers

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

Shannon L. Alder

I have found so many angels trapped inside undisputed jargon that I find myself digging at the words, in order to release them, from the books that unfairly captured their soul.

Tags: advice, angels, answers, articles, blindness, books, caring too much, debates, dervishes, freedom

God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know...

Shannon L. Alder

God whispered, "You endured a lot. For that I am truly sorry, but grateful. I needed you to struggle to help so many. Through that process you would grow into who you have now become. Didn't you know...

Tags: abuse, accepting, answers, autoimmune disease, bullied, compassion, crying, cyberbullying, defamation, empathy

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

A.D. Posey

When we write, we discover answers, though the key is not in the discovery but in the timing of the implementation.

Tags: ad posey, answers, implementatione, inspirational, story, storytellers, storytelling, timing, write, writers

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all benefic...

Criss Jami

Heresy would like to think of itself as 'invented Truth'. But of course, all Reason and Logic would agree that no man can ever create Truth; he can only discover it. If heresy were ever at all benefic...

Tags: answers, apologetics, argumentation, beliefs, church, create, deceit, definition, discovery, doctrine

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

To assume that I and I alone have all the answers is to eventually find myself entirely alone without any answers.

Tags: alone, answers, arrogance, arrogant, assume, cures, ignorance, ignorant, misdirected, misguided
About Edith Sitwell

Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell (7 September 1887 – 9 December 1964) was a British poet and critic and the eldest of the three literary Sitwells. She reacted badly to her eccentric, unloving parents and lived much of her life with her governess. She never married but became passionately attached to Russian painter Pavel Tchelitchew, and her home was always open to London's poetic circle, to whom she was generous and helpful.
Sitwell published poetry continuously from 1913, some of it abstract and set to music. With her dramatic style and exotic costumes, she was sometimes labelled a poseur, but her work was praised for its solid technique and painstaking craftsmanship. She was a recipient of the Benson Medal of the Royal Society of Literature.