Quote

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

Stevie Smith

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Stevie Smith
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: September 20
Died: 1971
Died: March 7
Illustrator
Novelist
Performing Artist
Poet
Writer
Hull
England
Florence Margaret Smith
Art
Hands
Must
Vigorous
Good
Material
International
Materials
Hand
Use

More quotes by Stevie Smith

Image
I only asked my friends to be friendly and polite, I found them indifferent and censorious The one I left to silence, the other to reproach: God send me over all such friends victorious.
Stevie Smith
Image
Nothing is more wistful than the scent of lilac, nor more robust than its woody stalk, for we must remember that it is a tree as well as a flower, we must try not to forget this.
Stevie Smith
Image
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
Stevie Smith
Image
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
Stevie Smith
Image
Youth is an arithmetical statement of passing interest, each hour eats it up.
Stevie Smith
Image
Fourteen-year-old, why must you giggle and dote, Fourteen-year-old, why are you such a goat? I'm fourteen years old, that is the reason, I giggle and dote in season.
Stevie Smith
Image
It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.
Stevie Smith
Image
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
Image
As Nature is always careless and indifferent Who sees, who steps, means nothing and this is pretty.
Stevie Smith
Image
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
Image
Why does my muse only speak when she is uhnhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
Stevie Smith
Image
Death's not a separation or alteration or parting it's just a one-handled door.
Stevie Smith
Image
Colours are what drive me most strongly.
Stevie Smith
Image
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.
Stevie Smith
Image
This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.
Stevie Smith
Image
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.
Stevie Smith
Image
The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.
Stevie Smith
Image
I love people, but I love the thought and memory of them just as much.
Stevie Smith
Image
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
Image
The human creature is alone in his carapace. Poetry is a strong way out.
Stevie Smith