Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smithwas an English poet and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1902
may treacherous depends
Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
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.
lying may bed
If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere.
swimming people may
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
men forgiving may
A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.
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.