97 Quotes by Stevie Smith

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

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.

Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.

I wish I had something exciting to tell you, but if I won $140,000, my share would be 70 (thousand). That's about what I'm in the hole, so that would bring me back even.

The Englishwoman is so refined/ She has no bosom and no behind.

one never knows really how things are with other people, they just do always seem more spirited than oneself somehow.

Colours are what drive me most strongly.

I like to see cats in movement. A galloping cat is a fine sight. See it cross the road in a streak, cursed by the drivers of motor cars and buses, dodging the butcher's bicycle, coming safe to the kerb and bellying under its home gate.

See the cat at love, rolling with its sweetheart, up and over, with shriek and moan. But if a person comes by, they break away, sit separate upon a fence washing their faces - and might never have met at all.