Stevie Smith Art Quotations

There can be no good art that is international. Art to be vigorous and gesund must use the material at hand.

a great artist ... takes what he did not make and makes of it something that only he can make ...

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.

Not Waving but Drowning Nobody heard him, the dead man, But still he lay moaning: I was much further out than you thought And not waving but drowning. Poor chap, he always loved larking And now he's dead It must have been too cold for him his heart gave way, They said. 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.

I'll have your heart, if not by gift my knife Shall carve it out. I'll have your heart, your life.