# Quote — Stevie Smith, Selected Poems

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

- Author: [Stevie Smith](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith.md)
- Book: [Selected Poems](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Stevie_Smith#Selected_Poems_(1962)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems/to-choose-a-god

## More from this book

> He did not love in the human way.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems/he-did-not.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems/all-the-same.md)

> 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.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/stevie-smith/selected-poems/no-man-has.md)