Alexander Smith

Who was Alexander Smith?

Alexander Smith was a Scottish poet, and labelled as one of the Spasmodic School.

Famous Quotes:

• Your death and my death are mainly of importance to ourselves. The black plumes will be stripped off our hearses within the hour; tears will dry, hurt hearts close again, our graves grow level with the church-yard, and although we are away, the world wags on. It does not miss us; and those who are near us, when the first strangeness of vacancy wears off, will not miss us much either.
• Everything is sweetened by risk.
• To be occasionally quoted is the only fame I care for.
• If you wish to preserve your secret, wrap it up in frankness.
• We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.
• Every man's road in life is marked by the grave of his personal likings.
• The sea complains upon a thousand shores.
• I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
• A man's real possession is his memory. In nothing else is he rich, in nothing else is he poor.
• A man gazing on the stars is proverbially at the mercy of the puddles in the road.