Stevie Smith: Quotes about love

Stevie Smith was poet, novelist, illustrator, performer. Explore interesting quotes on love.

Stevie Smith: 36 quotes0 likes

“Unpopular, lonely and loving, Elinor need not trouble, For if she were not so loving, She would not be so miserable.”

Source: Selected Poems

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

"God Speaks"
Selected Poems (1962)

“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.”

"Was He Married?"
Selected Poems (1962)

“The flower and fruit of love are mine
The ant, the fieldmouse and the mole”

"The Boat"
Selected Poems (1962)

“He did not love in the human way.”

"Was He Married?"
Selected Poems (1962)

“The boat that took my love away
He sent again to me
To tell me that he would not sleep
Alone beneath the sea.”

"The Boat"
Selected Poems (1962)