Poetry Quote by Stevie Smith — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing,”

“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....”

“My heart was full of softening showers,”

“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.”

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

“There is a god in whom I do not believe”

“What good are wings without the courage to fly?”

“Chaos,”

“We wear the mask that grins and lies,”

“To feel most beautifully alive means to be reading something beautiful, ready always to apprehend in the flow of language the sudden flash of poetry.”

“I only wrote prose before I met you.”

“Fellow-wanderer,”