Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smithwas an English poet and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1902
flower ants fruit
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole
east christ blazing
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.
home i-love-him men
I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
fire dresses hell
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
cold drowning moaning
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
food knives vegetables
I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.
pain lying thinking
I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear ...
simplest
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
thoughtful thinking hungry
I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.
beauty nature mean
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
house poetry ever-after
Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.
may treacherous depends
Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
youth hours passing
Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
beauty humanity able
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.