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Stevie Smith quotes about death

British Poet September 20, 1902 – March 7, 1971

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Stevie Smith quote: "Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies..."
Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go. Stevie Smith
There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against the windows. Then our house changes its shape, rears up and becomes a place of despair. Then fear and rage run simply--and the thought of Death as a friend. This is the simplest of thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god. 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. You must rely on yourself, they said, You must rely on yourself, Oh but I find this pill so bitter said the poor man. As he took it from the shelf. Crying, O sweet Death come to me. Come to me for company, Sweet Death it is only you I can. Constrain for company. Stevie Smith
But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.... 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 the death that's to be died. Stevie Smith
My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath. Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith quote: "If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on."
If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on. Stevie Smith

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