# Selected Poems

- Author: [Stevie Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith.md)
- Quotes: 12
- Book page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems

## Quotes

> He did not love in the human way.

> All the same, there is a difficulty. I should like him to be happy in heaven here,
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> But he cannot come by wishing. Only by being already at home here.

> No man has seen her, this pitiful ghost,
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> And no woman either, but heard her at most,
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> Sighing and tapping and sighing again,
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> You have weaned me too soon, you must nurse me again.

> Who is this that comes in grandeur, coming from the blazing East?
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> This is he we had not thought of, this is he the airy Christ.

> To choose a god of love, as he did and does,
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> Is a little move then? Yes, it is. A larger one will be when men
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> Love love and hate hate but do not deify them? It will be a larger one.

> I wish I was more cheerful, it is more pleasant,
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> Also it is a duty, we should smile as well as submitting
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> To the purpose of One Above who is experimenting
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> With various mixtures of human character which goes best,
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> All is interesting for him it is exciting, but not for us.
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> There I go again. Smile, smile, and get some work to do
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> Then you will be practically unconscious without positively having to go.

> The religion of Christianity
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> Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty
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> Reject this Sweetness, for she wears
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> A smoky dress out of hell fires.

> Was he married, did he try
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> To support as he grew less fond of them
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> Wife and family?

> I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him.
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> And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.

> The flower and fruit of love are mine
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> The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole

> The boat that took my love away
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> He sent again to me
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> To tell me that he would not sleep
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> Alone beneath the sea.

> Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy?
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> She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.