All Stevie Smith Quotes
- Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy. Doe
- Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door. Alteration
- If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on. Death
- 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… Been
- 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… Becomes
- 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… All
- Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go. Bleeding
- The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli. Angry
- 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… Alive
- 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… Bathe
- 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,… Advice
- 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… Allowed
- Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely. Activity
- 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… All
- 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… All
- 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,… Dear
- I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. Anglican
- This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind. Behind
- 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… All
- I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. Carve
- Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not… All
- My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was… Breath
- My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told. Been
- Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates.… All
- My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel.… Altogether