Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smithwas an English poet and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1902
wish-to-die fancy muse
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
people may fancy
Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.
shadow sun
Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.
bring exciting share wish won
I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand). That's about what I'm in the hole, so that would bring me back even.
far further lay nobody waving
Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.
bosom
The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind.
behinds bosoms refined
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
people spirited oneself
one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
colour
Colours are what drive me most strongly.
cat home sight
I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.
cat might faces
See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.
art hands use
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.
artist great-art great-artist
a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...
animal our-love able
all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.