Anna Wickham Quotes

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They sucked my soul from me
All for the sake of holy Uniformity.

Anna Wickham

How can I pour the liquor of new days
In the old pipes of Rhyme?

Anna Wickham

If my work is to be good,
I must transcend skill, I must master mood.
For the expression of the rare thing in me,
Is not in do, but deeper, in to be.

Anna Wickham

The true male never yet walked
Who liked to listen when his mate talked.

Anna Wickham

I will be neither man nor woman,
I will be just a human.

Anna Wickham

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

Anna Wickham

What is your need to eat the seed,
When growth might be so sweet?

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

I smother in the house in the valley below,
Let me out to the dark, let me go, let me go.

Anna Wickham

God send us power to make decision
With muscular, clean, fierce precision.
In life and song...

Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham

Anna Wickham

Born: 1883

Died: 1947 (aged 64)

Bio: Anna Wickham was the pseudonym of Edith Alice Mary Harper, a British poet with strong Australian connections. She is remembered as a modernist figure and feminist writer, though one not able to command sustained critical attention in her lifetime.

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