Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smithwas an English poet and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1902
heart knives ifs
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
men sea trying
The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
lonely needs miserable
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
strong communication important
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.
alive today rooms
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.
far further lay nobody waving
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.
people may fancy
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.
people spirited oneself
one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.
art hands use
There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.
home i-love-him men
I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.