Hilda Doolittle Quotes About Life

Quotes about: Life

• 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

• 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

• The race may or may not be to the swift,
  but tell me, is it likely
  that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Fighting, Race

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.323, 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

• 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”

• I knew the poor,
  I knew the hideous death they die,
  when famine lays its bleak hand on the door;
  I knew the rich,
  sated with merriment,
  who yet are sad.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Life, Knowledge, Doors

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

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