Top 7 Quotes by William Sharp

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.

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”

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”

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

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.

William Sharp

Wind, Giving, Mountain

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