Quotes by Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith

A great artist … takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

Artist

Great Art

Great Artist

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

Forgiving

May

Men

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.

Able

Animal

Our Love

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

Beauty

Mean

Nature

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.

Ideas

Tired

Want

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

Christian

Church

Lonely

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

Ever After

House

Poetry

Death’s not a separation or alteration or parting; it’s just a one-handled door.

Doors

Grief

Separation

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I’m fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.

Goats

Reason

Years

I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.

Hungry

Thinking

Thoughtful

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Able

Age

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Animal

Artist

Auden

Beauty

Believe

Blazing

Bleeding

Cat

Christ

Christian

Church

Dark

Death

Doors

Dream

Dresses

East

Ever After

Fall

Fancy

Fire

Fish Tanks

Flower

Forgiving

Friendly

Friendship

Girl

Goats

Goes On

Great Art

Great Artist

Grief

Hands

Hatred

Heart

Hell

Home

Hours

House

Human Nature

Hungry

I Love Him

Ideas

Ifs

Knives

Liberty

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Quotes by Stevie Smith

Stevie Smith

A great artist … takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

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.

As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.

But one wants the idea of Death, you know, as something large and unknowable, something that allows a person to stretch himself out. Especially one wants it if one is tired. Or perhaps what one wants is simply a release from sensation, from all consciousness for ever.

Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

Coleridge received the Person from Porlock And ever after called him a curse, Then why did he hurry to let him in? He could have hid in the house.

Death’s not a separation or alteration or parting; it’s just a one-handled door.

Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I’m fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.

I am hungry to be interrupted For ever and ever amen O Person from Porlock come quickly And bring my thoughts to an end.

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