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Anna Wickham Quotes

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

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”

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

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

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”

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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