Anna Wickham famous quotes

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

#Sensual #Desire #Longing

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

#Enemy

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 #Men #Order

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

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 never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think ***** has added to our sensual life.

Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.

I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.

Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.

Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.

May God so fill us today with the heart of Christ that we may glow with the divine fire of holy desire.

Traveling is one expression of the desire to cross boundaries.

The future will be like the past, in the sense that, no matter how amazing or technologically advanced a society becomes, the basic human rhythm of petty malevolence, sordid moneygrubbing, and official violence, illuminated by occasional bursts of loyalty or desire or tenderness, will go on.

...all his longings came out as a kind of disdain for what he longed for.

Art is born and takes hold wherever there is a timeless and insatiable longing for the spiritual.