Top 7 Quotes & Sayings by William Sharp

Explore popular quotes and sayings by a Scottish writer William Sharp.

Last updated on November 8, 2024.

William Sharp was a Scottish writer, of poetry and literary biography in particular, who from 1893 wrote also as Fiona Macleod, a pseudonym kept almost secret during his lifetime. He was also an editor of the poetry of Ossian, Walter Scott, Matthew Arnold, Algernon Charles Swinburne and Eugene Lee-Hamilton.

Scottish - Writer | September 12, 1855 - December 12, 1905

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My heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.

William Sharp

Go to the winter woods: listen there, look, watch, and "the dead months" will give you a subtler secret than any you have yet found in the forest.

William Sharp

In the beginning, said a Persian poet Allah took a rose, a lily, a dove, a serpent, a little honey, a Dead Sea apple, and a handful of clay. When he looked at the amalgram it was a woman.

William Sharp

A handful of pine-seed will cover mountains with the green majesty of forests. I too will set my face to the wind and throw my handful of seed on high.

William Sharp

The gray silence, the gray waves, the gray wastes of the sea.

William Sharp

The desire of love, Joy:The desire of life, Peace:The desire of the soul, Heaven:The desire of God ... a flame-white secret forever.

William Sharp

The swift years slip and slide adown the steep; The slow years pass; neither will come again.

William Sharp