Stevie Smith Quotes

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.

Stevie Smith

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• Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

  

  Caprice Bourret
  • Simple
  • Human
  • Difficult

• In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.

  

  Jackie Cooper
  • People
  • Boy
  • Living

• It's almost an impossible thing to get a movie made that is written by two actors who want to star in it, when no one knows who they are. The only time it happened that I know of was when Sylvester Stallone did it in 'Rocky.'

  

  Patrick Whitesell
  • Time
  • Movie
  • Star

• I have a terrible fear of travel. Just before we go, I start to panic and tell my wife I don't want to go. It's ridiculous. But actually it's only when it's somewhere I've not been to before.

  

  Gary Kemp Spandau Ballet
  • Fear
  • Wife
  • Travel

• If you are a dog and your owner suggests that you wear a sweater suggest that he wear a tail.

  

  Fran Lebowitz
  • Dog
  • Pet
  • Sweater

• We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.

  

  Venkatraman Ramakrishnan
  • Human
  • Birth
  • Human Beings

• There's no way you can possibly intellectually justify, 'Well, it's okay for the Western Judeo-Christian countries to have nuclear weapons, but not for a country like Iran.' That logic goes nowhere fast.

  

  Valerie Plame
  • Country
  • Christian
  • Logic

• I guess writing is a kind of therapy in the sense that there are things you need to say and you say them, and better out than in.

  

  Hanif Kureishi
  • Writing
  • Kind
  • Better

• I became the Dalai Lama not on a volunteer basis.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Volunteer
  • Became
  • Dalai

• You can understand a lot about yourself by working out which fairytale you use to present your world to yourself in.

  

  A. S. Byatt
  • World
  • Present
  • Yourself

• I am just one of the overwhelming majority of Americans who is responsible and hard-working and at one point in their life benefited greatly from government programs such as student loans, Medicare, and Social Security.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • Government
  • Responsible
  • Americans

• I would say old school cats like Redman and Wu-tang. My style is my style, those are just cats that I liked.

  

  Obie Trice
  • School
  • Style
  • Cats

• Travel is wonderful. Everyone thinks it's wonderful.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Travel
  • Wonderful
  • Everyone

• One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my name.

  

  Karen DeCrow
  • Friends
  • Reading
  • Dinner

• Every moment in our lives is a miracle we should enjoy instead of ignoring.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • Enjoy
  • Moment
  • Miracle

• People would say, 'Can I hug you?' And I would say, 'Yes, you can hug me! We're fellow New Yorkers!'

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • Me
  • Hug

• The bumping of lower-quality men out of their marriages through competitive reductions in the incomes of higher-quality men continues until the incomes of the lowest quality men are reduced to their single levels.

  

  Gary Becker
  • Men
  • Single
  • Quality

• Democracy is not enough. If the culture dies, the country dies.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Country
  • Culture
  • Democracy

• I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

  

  Daniel H. Wilson
  • War

• My heart has always leaned towards England, and with the close friendship of Winston [Churchill], the hero who brought hope to the world, I could not imagine a happier life for myself.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Friendship
  • Imagine
  • England

• Being attractive, it's not something I do consciously. It's incredibly flattering that people think I appeal to women. But that was a gift from my parents.

  

  Ioan Gruffudd
  • People
  • Women
  • Parents

• Whether or not we establish freedom rests with ourselves.

  

  Florence Ellinwood Allen
  • Freedom
  • Whether
  • Rests

• I've had that experience many, many, times - when you don't get roles. I'd developed a good muscle for shaking it off. I buy myself a present whenever I don't get a role that I really wanted. You get bummed out, and then you go, 'Oh! Now I get to go buy a present for myself.' That kind of helps.

  

  Alden Ehrenreich
  • Good
  • Experience
  • Present

• 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.

  

  Stevie Smith
  • People
  • Feels
  • Cold