Stevie Smith Men Quotations

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

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.

A man may forgive many wrongs, but he cannot easily forgive anyone who makes it plain that his conversation is tedious.

The sea was angry that day my friend, like an old man trying to send back soup at a deli.