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• These thoughts are depressing I know. They are depressing, 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.

  Stevie Smith

  Depressing, Character, Interesting

  Stevie Smith, “Thoughts About The Person From Porlock”

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• There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

  Stevie Smith

  Art, Hands, Use

  Arthur C. Rankin, Stevie Smith (1985). “The poetry of Stevie Smith, "little girl lost"”, Barnes & Noble Imports

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• I am hungry to be interrupted
  For ever and ever amen
  O Person from Porlock come quickly
  And bring my thoughts to an end.

  Stevie Smith

  Thoughtful, Thinking, Hungry

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.386, New Directions Publishing

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• My Muse sits forlorn She wishes she had not been born She sits in the cold No word she says is ever told.

  Stevie Smith

  Wish, Cold, Muse

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.95, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  War, Heart, Swings

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.195, New Directions Publishing

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• Cry pretty, pretty, pretty and you'll be able
  Very soon not even to cry pretty
  And so be delivered entirely from humanity
  This is prettiest of all, it is very pretty.

  Stevie Smith

  Beauty, Humanity, Able

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.470, New Directions Publishing

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

  Stevie Smith

  Thinking, Auden

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• Oh Lion in a peculiar guise, Sharp Roman road to Paradise, Come eat me up, I'll pay thy toll With all my flesh, and keep my soul.

  Stevie Smith

  Soul, Peculiar, Tolls

  Stevie Smith (2015). “Collected Poems and Drawings of Stevie Smith”, p.297, Faber & Faber

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• 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 Is, Hands, Bleeding

  Stevie Smith, James MacGibbon (1983). “Collected Poems”, p.103, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

  Running, Hands, Long

  Stevie Smith (1988). “New Selected Poems of Stevie Smith”, p.56, New Directions Publishing

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• all tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

  Stevie Smith

  Animal, Our Love, Able

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• Christianity in the suburb is cheerful. The church is a centre of social activity and those who go to church need never be lonely.

  Stevie Smith

  Christian, Lonely, Church

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