Stevie Smith Quotes, Sayings, Remarks, Thoughts and Speeches
Stevie Smith Quotes and Sayings
- 1
All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.
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- 2
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
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- 3
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.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.
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- 5
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.
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This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
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