Stevie Smith - Death Quotes

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I love Life,
I would fight to the death for it,
That's a feeling you say? I will find
A reason for it.

Stevie Smith

My heart was full of softening showers, I used to swing like this for hours, I did not care for war or death, I was glad to draw my breath.

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Ah me, sweet Death, you are the only god
Who comes as a servant when he is called, you know,
Listen then to this sound I make, it is sharp,
Come Death. Do not be slow.

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Yet a time may come when a poet or any person Having a long life behind him, pleasure and sorrow... May fancy life comes to him with love and says: We are friends enough now for me to give you death; Then he may commit suicide, then He may go.

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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting it's just a one-handled door.

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Love is not love that wounded bleeds And bleeding sullies slow. Come death within my hands and I Unto my love will go.

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