Anna Wickham quotes
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“Desire and longing are the whips of God.”
-- Anna WickhamSource : Anna Wickham (1921). “The Contemplative Quarry ; And, The Man with a Hammer”
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“Kinder the enemy who must malign us Than the smug friend who will define us”
-- Anna WickhamSource : 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 WickhamSource : 'The Affinity'
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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 WickhamSource : Anna Wickham (1971). “Selected poems”, Chatto & Windus
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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
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“I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think ***** has added to our sensual life.”
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“Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.”
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“I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.”
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“Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.”
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Source : A. B. Simpson (1984). “Days of Heaven on Earth: A Daily Devotional to Comfort and Inspire”, Moody Publishers
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“Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.”
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“...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.”
Source : Alan Hollinghurst (2014). “The Line of Beauty: Picador Classic”, p.106, Pan Macmillan
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“Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.”
Source : "Sculpting in Time". Book by Andrei Tarkovsky, 1986.
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