Stevie Smith Quotes
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Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am…
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its…
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one…
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.
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The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to…
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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless…
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If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on the pavement round the corner,…
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal…
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.
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Life in the [London] suburb is richer at the lower levels. At these levels the people are not self-conscious at all, they are at liberty…
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I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to…
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I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream,…
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I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
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All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important…
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I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
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