Quotes by : Stevie Smith

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

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

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a....

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....

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

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....

If I lie down on my bed I must be here,But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.

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

There are moments of despair that come sometimes, when night sets in and a white fog presses against....