Stevie Smith quotes

" 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. " # Wives # Dreams # Love

" This Englishwoman is so refined
She has no bosom and no behind. " # Family

" This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind. " # Family

" Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning. " # Life and Living # Death and Dying # Love

" 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. " # Character # Cheerfulness # Smile

" Was he married, did he try To support as he grew less fond of them Wife and family? " # Marriage # Family # Kindness

" He did not love in the human way. " # Love

" To choose a god of love, as he did and does, Is a little move then? Yes, it is. A larger one will be when men Love love and hate hate but do not deify them? It will be a larger one. " # Purity # Love # Choice

" I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him. " # Love # Faults # Home

" All the same, there is a difficulty. I should like him to be happy in heaven here, But he cannot come by wishing. Only by being already at home here. " # Happiness # Difficulties # Home