Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, … - Stevie Smith

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It was like discovering that some part of you wasn't yours at all. And it made me wonder what else I couldn't claim.

Stevie Smith

Truth is far and flat, and fancy is fiery; and truth is cold, and people feel the cold, and they may wrap themselves against it in fancies that are fiery, but they should not call them facts; and, generally, poets do not; they are shrewd, they feel the cold, too, but they know a hawk from a handsaw, a fact from a fancy, as none knows better.

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Death's not a separation or alteration or parting; it's just a one-handled door.

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It is the privilege of the rich To waste the time of the poor To water with tears in secret A tree that grows in secret That bears fruit in secret That ripened falls to the ground in secret And manures the parent tree Oh the wicked tree of hatred and the secret The sap rising and the tears falling.

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This is the simplest of all thoughts, that Death must come when we call, although he is a god.

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I love Death because he breaks the human pattern and frees us from pleasures too prolonged as well as from the pains of this world. It is pleasant, too, to remember that Death lies in our hands; he must come if we call him. . . . I think if there were no death, life would be more than flesh and blood could bear.

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I like food, I like stripping vegetables of their skins, I like to have a slim young parsnip under my knife.

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