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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....
— Stevie Smith
Tags: death

Other Quotes by "Stevie Smith"

It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.
— Stevie Smith Selected Poems
Tags: work, rich, poor, hope, employment, childe-rolandine
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.
— Stevie Smith
Tags: my-life, you, man, life
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
— Stevie Smith
Tags: refined, behind, she
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.
— Stevie Smith
Tags: swimming, people, me, women
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
— Stevie Smith
Tags: much, he, think, poetry
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