Bleeding Quote by Stevie Smith

“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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Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.

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“There is a god in whom I do not believe Yet to this god my love stretches, This god whom I do not believe in is My whole life, my life and I am his. Everything that I have of pleasure and pain (Of pain, of bitter pain and men's contempt) I give this god for him to feed upon…

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

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

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

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