Robert Barclay
Scottish Quaker apologist
Stevie Smith
British poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry.
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About the Stevie Smith
Florence Margaret Smith (20 September 1902 – 7 March 1971), known as Stevie Smith, was an English poet and novelist. She won the Cholmondeley Award and was awarded the Queen’s Gold Medal for Poetry. A play, Stevie by Hugh Whitemore, based on her life, was adapted into a film starring Glenda Jackson.
6 Quotes by Stevie Smith
- 1.
I may be smelly and I may be old, Rough in my pebbles, reedy in my pools, But where my fish float by I bless their swimming, And I like the people to bathe in me especially women.
Stevie SmithBritish poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)
- 2.
This Englishwoman is so refined, She has no bosom and no behind.
Stevie SmithBritish poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)
- 3.
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 SmithBritish poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)
- 4.
I don’t think Auden liked my poetry very much, he’s very Anglican.
Stevie SmithBritish poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)
- 5.
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.
Stevie SmithBritish poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)
- 6.
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.
Stevie SmithBritish poet, novelist, illustrator, performer (1902-1971)