Hilda Doolittle Quotes About Beauty

Quotes about: Beauty

• 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

• Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Selfish, Expression

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.327, New Directions Publishing

• 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

• 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

• Could beauty be beaten out,
  O youth the cities have sent
  to strike at each other's strength,
  it is you who have kept her alight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Cities, Youth

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

• Maid
  of the luminous grey-eyes,
  Mistress
  of honey and marble implacable white thighs
  and Goddess,
  chaste daughter of Zeus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Beauty, Daughter, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing

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