Hilda Doolittle Quotes About Love

Quotes about: Love

• I spit
  honey out of my mouth:
  nothing is second-best
  after the sweet of Eros.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Sweet, Mouths

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

• Love has no charm
  when Love is swept to earth:
  you'd make a lop-winged god,
  frozen and contrite,
  of god up-darting,
  winged for passionate flight.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Passionate, Frozen

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

• Dead men would start and move
  toward me to learn of love.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Moving, Men

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.340, New Directions Publishing

• Love that I bear
  within my breast
  how is my armour melted
  how my heart

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Heart, Bears

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

• 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

• 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

• Love is a garment
  riven in the light
  that rises from Parnassus,
  showing
  the night is over.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Night, Light

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.269, New Directions Publishing

• Let Love step down,
  open the clasped hands,
  forfeit the thorny crown,
  retrieve the garment
  that was whole,
  body and spirit one, spirit and soul.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Love, Perseverance, Hands

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.481, New Directions Publishing

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