Hilda Doolittle Quotes About War

Quotes about: War

• War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Kings, War, Maidens

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.184, New Directions Publishing

• Love, why have you sought the horde
  of spearsmen, why the tent
  Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Rivers, Tents

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

• War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
  We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
  Remain to weep, with the sea-birds to chant:
  Corinth is lost, Corinth is desolate.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Loss, Sea

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.338, New Directions Publishing

• Why wait for Death to mow?
  why wait for Death to sow
  us in the ground?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Death, War, Waiting

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.477, New Directions Publishing

• Lift up our eyes to you?
  no, God, we stare and stare,
  upon a nearer thing
  that greets us here,
  Death, violent and near.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Death, War, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.479, New Directions Publishing

• I myself have seen the floating ships
  And nothing will ever be the same
  The shouts,
  The harrowing voices within the house.
  I stand apart with an army:
  My mind is graven with ships.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Army, Voice

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.76, New Directions Publishing

• The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
  They have pointed the helms of their ships
  Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Anger, Greek

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.77, New Directions Publishing

• When the shingles hissed
  in the rain incendiary,
  other values were revealed to us

  Hilda Doolittle

  War, Rain, Understanding

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.520, New Directions Publishing

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