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Stevie Smith Quotes

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A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...  (Stevie Smith Quotes) I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Colours are what drive me most strongly  (Stevie Smith Quotes) He did not love in the human way  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Marred pleasure’s best, shadow makes the sun strong  (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  (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  (Stevie Smith Quotes) The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole  (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  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I do not fear the night aboveAs I fear the friends below.  (Stevie Smith Quotes) People who are always praising the past And especially the time of faith as best Ought to go and live in the Middle Ages And be burnt at the stake as witches and sages.  (Stevie Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes) If there wasn’t death, I think you couldn’t go on  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up  (Stevie Smith Quotes) The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Nobody heard him, the dead man, but still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, and not waving but drowning  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this  (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  (Stevie Smith Quotes) 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 Quotes) I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife  (Stevie Smith Quotes) One never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow  (Stevie Smith Quotes) I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher’s bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate  (Stevie Smith Quotes) There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand  (Stevie Smith Quotes) A great artist... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make  (Stevie Smith Quotes) All tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it  (Stevie Smith Quotes) It is an amiable part of human nature, that we should love our animals; it is even better to love them to the point of folly, than not to love them at all  (Stevie Smith Quotes) I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious; The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious  (Stevie Smith Quotes) The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli  (Stevie Smith Quotes) Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy  (Stevie Smith Quotes)
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