Quotes by : Stevie Smith

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....

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

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

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons....

The English woman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

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....

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

Children who paddle where the ocean bed shelves steeplyMust take great care they do not, Paddle too deeply.'Thus....

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be....