Stevie Smith Quotes
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
Quotes to Explore
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He is the true enchanter, whose spell operates, not upon the senses, but upon the imagination and the heart.
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I wouldn't dream of working on something that didn't make my gut rumble and my heart want to explode.
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Only a fortunate few seek the Beloved. Only a blessed few seek to enter the shrine of the heart.
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
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Horror is so often a 'thinkless' genre, sort of considered popcorn movies, but you really put a lot of, not just heart and soul, but a lot of physical energy into it.
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The heart of the melody can never be put down on paper.
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When I was young, my parents were these titanic, infallible figures. But Mum's illness and Dad's battles with diabetes and heart attacks had a ripple effect on me - reminding me of my own mortality and that these illnesses are genetic.
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Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string. Accept the place the divine providence has found for you, the society of your contemporaries, the connection of events. Great men have always done so.
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Everybody's at war with different things… I'm at war with my own heart sometimes.
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Thinking of the sun makes my heart beat faster - too fast! What darkness! From this night winter begins.
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A personal offense is like a scratch on a phonograph record. I couldn't move my thoughts beyond my pain. It kept repeating, as if I were stuck within its grooves. There was only one way to play beyond it. I had to forgive them, so my heart could take its form again.
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If you open your heart, then the object of your love becomes so precious because you are so open. And that philosophy, that caring, spreads.
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I believed then - in a deep, easy way that is impossible for me as an adult - that there was more to this world than meets the eye. Trees had spirits; the wind spoke. If you followed a toad or a raven deep into the heart of the forest, they were sure to lead you to something magical.
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Hear me, my chiefs! I am tired. My heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands, I will fight no more forever.
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You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.
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Obesity puts our children at risk of developing serious diseases - such as Type 2 diabetes, heart disease and depression. It keeps our children from performing their best at school.
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As I've told my three daughters, all of whom I've at one time encouraged to go into macro trading, any man or woman can do anything to which they set their heart and mind.
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I wear my heart on my sleeve.
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A thousand kisses buys my heart from me; And pay them at thy leisure, one by one.
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Love isn't a burst o' trumpets and a flock o' doves descendin' out o' the heavens to roost on yer heads. Tis sharin' a cup o' tea by the hearth on a cold winter's night. 'Tis the look in yer husband's eyes when ye lay yer first child in his arms. Tis the ache in yer heart when ye watch the light in his eyes dim fer the last time, and know a part o' ye has gone out o' this world with him.
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In my 10 years, I never put a girl that was too skinny in French 'Vogue.'
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No verse which is unmusical or obscure can be regarded as poetry whatever other qualities it may possess.
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Painting is so much more than the materials.
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I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
