Anna Wickham Quotes

• Desire and longing are the whips of God.

  Anna Wickham

  Sensual, Desire, Longing

  Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”

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• I feel that women of my kind are a profound mistake. There have been few women poets of distinction, and, if we count only the suicides of Sappho, Lawrence Hope and Charlotte Mew, their despair rate has been very high.

  Anna Wickham

  Suicide, Mistake, Profound

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• I desire Virtue, though I love her not-
  I have no faith in her when she is got:
  I fear that she will bind and make me slave
  And send me songless to the sullen grave.

  Anna Wickham

  Desire, Sullen, Slave

  Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus

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• Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us

  Anna Wickham

  Enemy, Kinder

  Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”

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• It is well within the order of things
  That man should listen when his mate sings;
  But the true male never yet walked
  Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

  Anna Wickham

  Marriage, Women, Order

  'The Affinity'

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