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

- Anna Wickham

Desire and longing are the whips of God.

- 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 t…

- 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 mat…

- 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, La…

- Anna Wickham