Stevie Smith

Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#lonely #love #loving #miserable #misery

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#my-heart-was-full #poetry #death

Away with them, away; we should not believe fairy stories if we wish to be good. Think of them as persons from the fairy wood. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#fairies #god #gods #i-was-so-full #religion

The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#hospitalization #hospitals #life #living #the-world

Prate not to me of suicide, Faint heart in battle, not for pride I say Endure, but that such end denied Makes welcomer yet the death that's to be died. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#dying #endure #life #study-to-deserve-death #suicide

If I lie down on my bed I must be here, But if I lie down in my grave I may be elsewhere. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#afterworld #death #death

Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#love #the-boat #death

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#knife #life #love #life

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. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#another #communication #fellow #important #listen

I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. ↗

— Stevie Smith

#i #liked #much #poetry #think