Stevie Smith - Love 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.

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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.

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In his fur the animal rode, and in his fur he strove,
And oh it filled my heart my heart, it filled my heart with love.

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All tamed animals are nervous, we have given them reason to be, not only by cruelty but by our love too, that presses upon them. They have not been able to be entirely indifferent to this and untouched by it.

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

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My friendships, they are a very strong part of my life, they are as light as gossamer but also they are as strong as steel. And I cannot throw them off, nor altogether do with them or without them. And I love them at the point where they say: It is nice to see you again. And I love them too at the point when they say: Good-bye, come again soon. The rhythm of friendship is a very good rhythm.

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

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

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