William Sharp Quotes

• Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

  William Sharp

  Winter, Giving, Secret

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The silence of amor. Where the forest murmurs”

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• In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

  William Sharp

  Women, Apples, Sea

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1912). “Selected Writings”

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• My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

  William Sharp

  Lonely, Loneliness, Heart

  "The Lonely Hunter" l. 24 (1896) See McCullers 1

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• A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

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  Wind, Giving, Mountain

  William Sharp, Elizabeth Amelia Sharp (1910). “The Winged destiny. Studies in the spiritual history of the Gael”

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• The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

  William Sharp

  Flames, White, Joy

  William Sharp (1907). “From the hills of dream: threnodies, songs and later poems, by Fiona Macleod”

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• The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

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  Carpe Diem, Years, Slides

  William Sharp (2015). “The Washer of the Ford: Legendary Moralities and Barbaric Tales”, p.177, Library of Alexandria

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• The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

  William Sharp

  Sea, Silence, Waste

  "Longing" in "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations" by John Bartlett, 10th ed., 1919.

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