Quotes by : Stevie Smith

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied....

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

I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by....

My heart was full of softening showers,I used to swing like this for hours,I did not care for war or....

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further....

God the EaterThere is a god in whom I do not believeYet to this god my love stretches,This god whom I....

My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are....

Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I'll pay thy tollWith all my....

Into the dark night Resignedly I go, I am not so afraid of the dark night As the friends I do not know,I....

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is....