"It is the privilege of the rich To……" — Stevie Smith
"It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling."
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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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I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my…
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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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The devil put before me that I could not endure the trials of the religious life, because of my delicate…
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