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.

Raise from your bed of languorRaise from your bed of dismayYour friends will not come tomorrowAs they....

These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant,Also....

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

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

Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said,Are innocent and fathomlessAnd when I look at them I seeThat they....

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

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....

It is the privilege of the richTo waste the time of the poorTo water with tears in secretA tree that....