Art Quote 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Stevie Smith

I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

— Stevie Smith

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

— Stevie Smith

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

— 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…

— 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…

— Stevie Smith