Famous Stevie Smith Quotes

  • Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable. – Stevie Smith

    Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.– Stevie Smith

  • 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

    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

  • I’ll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I’ll have your heart, your life. – Stevie Smith

    I’ll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I’ll have your heart, your life.– Stevie Smith

  • Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I’ll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul. – Stevie Smith

    Oh Lion in a peculiar guise,Sharp Roman road to Paradise,Come eat me up, I’ll pay thy tollWith all my flesh, and keep my soul.– Stevie Smith