Stevie Smith Quotes on poetry

All poetry has to do is to make a strong communication. All the poet has to do is listen. The poet is not an important fellow. There will also be another poet.

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Raise from your bed of languorRaise from your bed of dismayYour friends will not come tomorrowAs they did not come todayYou must rely on yourself, they said, You must rely on yourself, Oh but I find this pill so bitter said the poor manAs he took it from the shelfCrying, O sweet Death come to meCome to me for company, Sweet Death it is only you I canConstrain for company.

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My Muse sits forlornShe wishes she had not been bornShe sits in the coldNo word she says is ever told.

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Wild creatures' eyes, the colonel said, Are innocent and fathomlessAnd when I look at them I seeThat they are not aware of meAnd oh I find and oh I blessA comfort in this emptinessThey only see me when they wantTo pounce upon me at the hunt; But in the tame varietyThere couches an anxietyAs if they yearned, yet knew not whatThey yearned for, nor they yearned for not. And so my dog would look at meAnd it was pitiful to seeSuch love and such dependency. The human heart is not at easeWith animals that look like these.

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