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> [Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/oh-no-no-no-it-was-too-cold-always-still-the-dead-one-lay-moaning-i/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b23/stevie-smith-8661_cold_oh-no-no-no-it-was-too-cold-always-still_103095.png)

> [Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/nobody-heard-him-the-dead-man-but-still-he-lay-moaning-i-was-much/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/09c/stevie-smith-8661_dead_nobody-heard-him-the-dead-man-but-still_1451737.png)

> [Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/not-waving-but-drowning-nobody-heard-him-the-dead-man-but-still-he/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bb1/stevie-smith-8661_chaps_not-waving-but-drowning-nobody-heard-him_2386721.jpg)

## Other authors on Too far

## More by Stevie Smith

> [I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/i-only-asked-my-friends-to-be-friendly-and-polite-i-found-them/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/oh-no-no-no-it-was-too-cold-always-still-the-dead-one-lay-moaning-i/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [“Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomless And when I look at them I see That they are not aware of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/wild-creatures-eyes-the-colonel-said-are-innocent-and-fathomless-and/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [“Raise from your bed of languor Raise from your bed of dismay Your friends will not come tomorrow As they did not come today…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/raise-from-your-bed-of-languor-raise-from-your-bed-of-dismay-your/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [“There is a god in whom I do not believe Yet to this god my love stretches, This god whom I do not believe…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/there-is-a-god-in-whom-i-do-not-believe-yet-to-this-god-my-love/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/so-i-fancy-my-muse-says-when-i-wish-to-die-oh-no-oh-no-we-are-not-yet/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/if-a-lady-comes-up-to-you-and-tells-you-that-your-dear-mama-is-lying/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/i-like-food-i-like-stripping-vegetables-of-their-skins-i-like-to-have/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/death-s-not-a-separation-or-alteration-or-parting-it-s-just-a-one/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/the-flower-and-fruit-of-love-are-mine-the-ant-the-fieldmouse-and-the/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [“Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/prate-not-to-me-of-suicide-faint-heart-in-battle-not-for-pride-i-say/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/it-is-an-amiable-part-of-human-nature-that-we-should-love-our-animals/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/my-muse-sits-forlorn-she-wishes-she-had-not-been-born-she-sits-in-the/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/there-are-moments-of-despair-that-come-sometimes-when-night-sets-in/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

> [Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stevie-smith/fourteen-year-old-why-must-you-giggle-and-dote-fourteen-year-old-why/)

[Stevie Smith](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stevie-smith/)

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