He did not love in the human way.
Stevie Smith
I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.
life heart knife
The world is come upon me, I used to keep it a long way off, But now I have been run over and I am in the hands of the hospital staff.
life world living the-world hospitals hospital
Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.
worry trouble loving loneliness miserable misery lonely
Oh, no no no, it was too cold always (Still the dead one lay moaning) I was much too far out all my life And not waving but drowning.
life
I made Man with too many faults. Yet I love him. And if he wishes, I have a home above for him.
faults wishes man home
All the same, there is a difficulty. I should like him to be happy in heaven here, But he cannot come by wishing. Only by being already at home here.
home
Was he married, did he try To support as he grew less fond of them Wife and family?
family
No man has seen her, this pitiful ghost, And no woman either, but heard her at most, Sighing and tapping and sighing again, You have weaned me too soon, you must nurse me again.
man
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.
men
The boat that took my love away He sent again to me To tell me that he would not sleep Alone beneath the sea.
sleep boats
The flower and fruit of love are mine The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole
The religion of Christianity Is mixed of sweetness and cruelty Reject this Sweetness, for she wears A smoky dress out of hell fires.
religion
So I fancy my Muse says, when I wish to die, Oh no, Oh no, we are not yet friends enough, And Virtue also says: We are not yet friends enough.
muses virtues
Why does my Muse only speak when she is unhappy? She does not, I only listen when I am unhappy.
muses
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