Stevie Smith Quotes
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These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant, Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting With various mixtures of human character which goes best, All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us. There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.
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I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
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The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
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Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.
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This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
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I'm sorry to say my dear wife is a dreamer, and as she dreams she gets paler and leaner. Then be off to your Dream, with his fly-away hat, I stay with the girls who are happy and fat.
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Marriage I think For women Is the best of opiates. It kills the thoughts That think about the thoughts, It is the best of opiates. So said Maria. But too long in solitude she'd dwelt, And too long her thoughts had felt Their strength. So when the man drew near, Out popped her thoughts and covered him with fear. Poor Maria! Better that she had kept her thoughts on a chain, For now she's alone again and all in pain; She sighs for the man that went and the thoughts that stay To trouble her dreams by night and her dreams by day.
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Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
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You must have some money if you are going to live simply. It need not be much, but you must have some.
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If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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A great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.
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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.
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Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.