Hilda Doolittle Quotes

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• The heart
  the heart
  the heart
  how it thrives on hate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Hate, Heart, Thrive

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.379, New Directions Publishing

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• We are voyagers, discoverers
  of the not-known,
  the unrecorded;
  we have no map;
  possibly we will reach haven,
  heaven.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Heaven, Maps

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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• ...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Judgement, Ifs

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.7, New Directions Publishing

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• One flower may slay the winter
  and meet death.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Spring, Flower, Winter

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.63, New Directions Publishing

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• The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone
  is yours if you surrender
  sterile logic, trivial reason.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Faith, Magic, Stones

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.533, New Directions Publishing

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• No poetic phantasy
  but a biological reality,
  a fact: I am an entity
  like bird, insect, plant
  or sea-plant cell;
  I live; I am alive.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Reality, Cells

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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• Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Redemption, Plague

  Hilda Doolittle (1981). “HERmione”, p.67, New Directions Publishing

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• The quivering
  of Psyche's butterflies.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Butterfly, Dancing, Dancer

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.260, New Directions Publishing

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• We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Letting Go, Vanity, Reason

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• For this beauty,
  beauty without strength,
  chokes out life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Beauty, Choke

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

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• Every concrete object
  has abstract value, is timeless
  in the dream parallel.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Timeless, Abstract

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.523, New Directions Publishing

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• Dance until the earth dance.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dancing, Earth

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.224, New Directions Publishing

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• I will be free,
  no lover's kiss
  to bind me to earth,
  no bliss of love
  to counteract
  actual bliss.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Freedom, Kissing, Solitude

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.217, New Directions Publishing

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• No one knows the colour of a flower
  till it is broken.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flower, Knowledge, Broken

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.381, New Directions Publishing

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• Ah love is bitter and sweet,
  but which is more sweet
  the bitterness or the sweetness,
  none has spoken it.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Sweet, Bitterness

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

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• That way of inspiration
  is always open,
  and open to everyone;
  it acts as go-between, interpreter,
  it explains symbols of the past
  in to-day's imagery.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Art, Inspiration

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.20, New Directions Publishing

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• You are wind in a stark tree,
  you are the stark tree unbent,
  you are a strung bow,
  you are an arrow.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wind, Arrows, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.93, New Directions Publishing

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• Writing. Love is writing.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Writing, Love Is, Writing Love

  Hilda Doolittle (1981). “Hermione”, p.129, New Directions Publishing

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• It is no madness to say
  you will fall, you great cities.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fall, Cities, Madness

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.54, New Directions Publishing

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• No one knows,
  the heart of a child,
  how it grows
  until it is too late.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Children, Heart, Knowledge

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.381, New Directions Publishing

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• The whole white world is ours.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, White, World

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.134, New Directions Publishing

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• O beautiful white land,
  olives and wild anemone and violet
  mingled among the shale,
  and purple wings
  of little winter-butterflies
  say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Beautiful, Lying

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.332, New Directions Publishing

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• I could not accept from wisdom
  what love taught,
  woman is perfect.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Women, Perfect, Taught

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.455, New Directions Publishing

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• I smiled,
  I waited,
  I was circumspect;
  O never, never, never write that I
  missed life or loving.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Writing, Loving Life

  Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks”

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• But beauty is set apart,
  beauty is cast by the sea,
  a barren rock,
  beauty is set about
  with wrecks of ships.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Rocks, Sea

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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