Edith Sitwell Quotes
Hot water is my native element. I was in it as a baby, and I have never seemed to get out of it ever since.
Citations
Sitwell, Edith. Taken Care Of: An Autobiography. Atheneum, 1965.
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Dame Edith Louisa Sitwell DBE 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.