"I may be smelly and I may be……" — Stevie Smith
"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 their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women."
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Stevie Smith
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31 Quotes by Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith has 31 quotes on this site.
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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…
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There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows.…
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But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to…
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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my…
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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…
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If a lady comes up to you and tells you that your dear mama is lying in a faint on…
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O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed…
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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church…
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More Bathe Quotes
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one of 99 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The snowdrop and primrose our woodlands adorn, and violets bathe in the wet o' the morn.
— Robert Burns
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What a joy it is to feel the soft, springy earth under my feet once more, to follow grassy roads…
— Helen Keller
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Ay, but to die and go we know not where; To lie in cold obstrution and to rot; This sensible…
— William Shakespeare
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When the heart is cut or cracked or broken Do not clutch it Let the wound lie open Let the…
— Michael Leunig
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I who once wrote songs with keen delight am now by sorrow driven to take up melancholy measures. Wounded Muses…
— Boethius
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Take a quick dip, relax with a schnapps and a sandwich, stretch out, have a smoke, take a nap or…
— Annie Dillard
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All the answers you may wish for lie within faith, but it demands a complete and incontinent surrender, an immersion…
— Simon Mawer
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I bathe in basslines, rinse in riffs, dry in drums
— Common
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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease…
— Phineas Fletcher
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It's the contemporary woman that movies don't know what to do with, other than bathe her in a bridal glow…
— James Wolcott
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Heretics are not to be disputed with, but to be condemned unheard, and whilst they perish by fire, the faithful…
— Martin Luther
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Many people, improperly, lump together libertarians and the Tea Parties. That's really wrong. Many of the libertarians are physicists, and…
— Alan Grayson
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