If there wasn't death, I think you couldn't go on.
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Marred pleasure's best, shadow makes the sun strong.Stevie Smith
I don't think Auden liked my poetry very much, he's very Anglican.
Stevie Smith
Bad women poets are better characters, they seldom... get drunk... go to prison... shoot the pianist. Their faults are soul fullness and banality. They like to commune (who does not) with the deity, nature, and themselves, but their words do not quite carry the traffic... some bad men poets can persuade people... that tricks and shocks are a substitute for talent... good poets of either sex are above these quarrels.
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I'm alive today, therefore I'm just as much a part of our time as everybody else. The times will just have to enlarge themselves to make room for me, won't they, and for everybody else.
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Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning. I was much further out than you thought, and not waving but drowning. I was much too far out all my life, And not waving but drowning.
Stevie Smith
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.
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