Stevie Smith May Quotations

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.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

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

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

Life may be treacherous, but you can always depend on death.