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Stevie Smith quotes

British Poet September 20, 1902 – March 7, 1971

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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. Stevie Smith
Dear little Bog-Face, Why are you so cold? And why do you lie with your eyes shut?-- You are not very old. I am a Child of this World And a Child of Grace, And Mother, I shall be glad when it is over, I am Bog-Face. Stevie Smith
Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. 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. 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
I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else. Stevie Smith
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet. Stevie Smith
And soon all our minds will be flat as a pancake, With no room for genius exaltation or heartache. And our children and theirs will preen, smirk and chatter, With not even the sense to ask what is the matter. Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith quote: "Hope and desire, All unfulfilled, Have more than rope. And..."
Hope and desire, All unfulfilled, Have more than rope. And hangman killed. Stevie Smith
Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll. With all my flesh, and keep my soul. Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith quote: "My Muse sits forlorn. She wishes she had not been born. She..."
My Muse sits forlorn. She wishes she had not been born. She sits in the cold. No word she says is ever told. Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith quote: "I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very..."
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. Stevie Smith

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