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11 William Sharp Quotes

William Sharp shares gentle, dreamy verses about nature and wind that whisk you into quiet reflection.

William Sharp quotes

  1. Across the silent stream Where the dream-shadows go, From the dim blue Hill of Dream I have heard the west wind blow.

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  2. Love is a beautiful dream.

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  3. Ah, the strange, sweet, lonely delight Of the Valleys of Dream.

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  4. Down beyond the haven the tide comes with a shout.

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  5. 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.

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

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  7. I hear the little children of the wind Crying solitary in lonely places.

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Also attributed

  1. 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.

  2. 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.

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

  4. “O never a green leaf whispers, where the green-gold branches swing: O never a song I hear now, where one was wont to sing. Here in the heart of Summer, sweet is life to me still, But my heart is a lonely hunter that hunts on a lonely hill.”