Stevie Smith Quotes - Page 3

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• Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

  Stevie Smith

  Christian, Lonely, Church

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• 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 above As I fear the friends below.

  Stevie Smith

  Dark, Night, Shy

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.186, New Directions Publishing

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• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, 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

  Depressing, Character, Interesting

  Stevie Smith, “Thoughts About The Person From Porlock”

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• 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

  Animal, Our Love, Able

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• 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

  East, Christ, Blazing

  Stevie Smith (1964). “Selected Poems”

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• 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

  Wish, Cold, Muse

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• I am hungry to be interrupted
  For ever and ever amen
  O Person from Porlock come quickly
  And bring my thoughts to an end.

  Stevie Smith

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Hungry

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.386, New Directions Publishing

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

  Stevie Smith

  Flower, Moles, Ants

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.103, New Directions Publishing

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• Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able
  Very soon not even to cry pretty
  And so be delivered entirely from humanity
  This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.

  Stevie Smith

  Beauty, Humanity, Able

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.470, New Directions Publishing

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

  Stevie Smith

  Thinking, Auden

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

  Stevie Smith

  Home, I Love Him, Men

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Soul, Peculiar, Tolls

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.297, Faber & Faber

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