Quote

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

Anna Wickham

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Anna Wickham
Age: 63 †
Born: 1883
Born: January 1
Died: 1947
Died: January 1
Poet
Writer
Edith Alice Mary Harper
Desire
Whips
Sensual
Longing

More quotes by Anna Wickham

Image
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
Image
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
Image
Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us
Anna Wickham
Image
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