"The world is come upon me, I used……" — Stevie Smith
"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 in the hands of the hospital staff."
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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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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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Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church…
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