Anna Wickham Quote

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.

Selected poems (1971 edition), Chatto & Windus

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.

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.

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.

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.