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One never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
— 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
Sharp Roman road to Paradise,
Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll
With all my flesh, and keep my soul. — Stevie Smith
You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.
— 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
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
Some are born for peace and joy
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow — Stevie Smith
Some are born for sorrow
But only for a day as we
Shall not be here tomorrow — Stevie Smith
I am hungry to be interrupted
For ever and ever amen — Stevie Smith
For ever and ever amen — Stevie Smith
As Nature is always careless and indifferent
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty. — Stevie Smith
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty. — Stevie Smith
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
— Stevie Smith
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
— Stevie Smith
If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
— Stevie Smith
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
— Stevie Smith
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
— Stevie Smith
Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
— Stevie Smith
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
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
She wishes she had not been born
She sits in the cold
No word she says is ever told. — Stevie Smith
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
— 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
A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...
— Stevie Smith
I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
— Stevie Smith
If I lie down on my bed I must be here,
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. — Stevie Smith
But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. — 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.
— Stevie Smith
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.
— Stevie Smith