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title: "5 Waving Drowning Quotes by 3 authors"
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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)

> [“How could you teach someone to survive? You pointed them in the right direction and hoped they'd swim, not sink. Waving, not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lesley-lokko/how-could-you-teach-someone-to-survive-you-pointed-them-in-the-right/)

[Lesley Lokko](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lesley-lokko/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fa6/lesley-lokko-42230_expression-of-love_how-could-you-teach-someone-to-survive-y_1983523.jpg)

> [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)

> [Soyinka's Death at Dawn, Auden's Musée des Beaux Arts, Stevie Smith's Not Waving but Drowning and Wislawa Szymborska's Some People come to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ama-ata-aidoo/soyinka-s-death-at-dawn-auden-s-mus-e-des-beaux-arts-stevie-smith-s/)

[Ama Ata Aidoo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ama-ata-aidoo/)

[Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a19/ama-ata-aidoo-20511_art_soyinka-s-death-at-dawn-auden-s-mus-e-de_3098348.jpg)

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