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Stevie Smith Quotes
Page 1 of 1Stevie Smith
September 20, 1902 - March 7, 1971
Nationality: British
Category: Poet
Subcategory: British Poet
|  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. | | 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. | | 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. | | I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican. | | This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind. | | 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. |
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