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Stevie Smith
16 quotes
“This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) first seen 1937 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: This Englishwoman". A Good Time Was Had by All (1937)
“Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) first seen 1957 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Not Waving but Drowning", st. 1. Not Waving but Drowning (1957)
“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 (1902–1971) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Exeat". The Best Beast (1966)
“All things pass Love and mankind is grass.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) first seen 1966 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: All Things Pass". The Frog Prince and Other Poems (1966)
“I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Was he married, did he try To support as he grew less fond of them Wife and family?”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He did not love in the human way.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To choose a god of love, as he did and does, Is a little move then? Yes, it is. A larger one will be when men Love love and hate hate but do not deify them? It will be a larger one.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the same, there is a difficulty. I should like him to be happy in heaven here, But he cannot come by wishing. Only by being already at home here.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“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 (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“No man has seen her, this pitiful ghost, And no woman either, but heard her at most, Sighing and tapping and sighing again, You have weaned me too soon, you must nurse me again.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The boat that took my love away He sent again to me To tell me that he would not sleep Alone beneath the sea.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.”
Stevie Smith (1902–1971) said by 1971 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source