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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.”

Quote by Stevie Smith

Book:The poetry of Stevie Smith,

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The poetry of Stevie Smith,

This book features a selection of works by Stevie Smith, showcasing her distinctive style and themes. more

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Stevie Smith, born on September 20, 1902, and died on March 7, 1971, was a renowned British poet. Her poetry is characterized by its unique style, concise language, and often humorous and satirical elements. Smith's works have been widely appreciated by readers and are considered classics of 20th-century British literature. more

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“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.”

Ifs Persons Might Faces Break Mets Cat Rolling Fence Washing Sweetheart

Author:Stevie Smith

“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.”

Home Car Movement Fine Safe Crosses Cat Sight Gates Drivers Bus Motor Bicycle Cursed Streaks Butchers Galloping Motor Cars

Author:Stevie Smith

“Colours are what drive me most strongly.”

Author:Stevie Smith

“Supersymmetry is a theory which stipulates that for every known particle there should be a partner particle. For instance, the electron should be paired with a supersymmetric 'selectron,' quarks ought to have 'squark' partners, and so on.”

Should Known Theory Ought Partners Instance Particles Electrons Quarks

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

People Knows Seems Oneself Spirited

Author:Stevie Smith

“I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.”

Young Food Skins Cooking Knives Vegetables Slim Stripping Parsnips

Author:Stevie Smith

“I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. ... I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.”

Ifs Thinking World Humans Wells Hands Would Be Pain Remember Lying Pleasure Break Blood This World Bears Patterns Flesh Pleasant Life Death Flesh And Blood Love Death

Author:Stevie Smith

“This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.”

Author:Stevie Smith

“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.”

People Knows Feels Should May Facts Poet Cold Truth Is Fancy Flats Wraps Fiery Hawks

Author:Stevie Smith

“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.”

Trying Wells Remember Forget Tree Flower Scent Stalking Robust Woody Lilac

Author:Stevie Smith