Stevie Smith
Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith, known as Stevie Smithwas an English poet and novelist...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth20 September 1902
bring exciting share wish won
I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand). That's about what I'm in the hole, so that would bring me back even.
lonely needs miserable
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
swimming people may
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.
dog boys errands
O happy dogs of England, Bark well at errand boys, If you lived anywhere else, You would not be allowed to make such an infernal noise.
marriage girl dream
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.
beauty nature mean
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
beauty humanity able
Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able Very soon not even to cry pretty And so be delivered entirely from humanity This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.
simplest
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
food knives vegetables
I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.
house poetry ever-after
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.
youth hours passing
Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
wish-to-die fancy muse
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
unhappy doe speak
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
tired ideas want
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....