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Stevie Smith quotes: One never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

One never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

Stevie Smith quotes: Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.

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 quotes: You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.

Stevie Smith quotes: I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.

Stevie Smith quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Some are born for peace and joySome are born for sorrowBut only for a day as weShall not be here tomorrow

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 quotes: I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.

Stevie Smith quotes: I am hungry to be interruptedFor ever and ever amen

I am hungry to be interrupted
For ever and ever amen

Stevie Smith quotes: As Nature is always careless and indifferentWho sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent
Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Stevie Smith quotes: Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.

Stevie Smith quotes: Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.

Stevie Smith quotes: 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 quotes: I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.

Stevie Smith quotes: 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

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 quotes: Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.

Stevie Smith quotes: Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.

Stevie Smith quotes: Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

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 quotes: My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told.

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 quotes: The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.

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 quotes: Hope and desire,All unfulfilled,Have more than ropeAnd hangman killed.

Hope and desire,
All unfulfilled,
Have more than rope
And hangman killed.

Stevie Smith quotes: The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

Stevie Smith quotes: 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.

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 quotes: A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...

A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...

Stevie Smith quotes: I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.

I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.

Stevie Smith quotes: If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

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 quotes: 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

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 quotes: There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

Stevie Smith quotes: This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.

Stevie Smith quotes: Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

Stevie Smith quotes: The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.

Stevie Smith quotes: Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East? This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

Stevie Smith quotes: A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.