Anna Wickham Quotes & Sayings

Desire and longing are the whips of God. — Anna Wickham

Weapons'

Up the crag
In the searing wind,
Naked and bleeding
I fought blind.

Then at dawn
On the snowy height
I seized a spear
By the eastern light.

On I trudged
In the eye of the sun
Past the cromlech
I found a gun.

Then I strayed
In the cities of men,
In the house of my Love
I found a pen! — Anna Wickham

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

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

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

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

The fight ended. For both was victory. For both there was defeat. — Anna Wickham