Hilda Doolittle Quotes - Page 2

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• You will not see
  that desire begets
  love,
  until it all flames
  into one concise
  and metallic blaze.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Flames, Desire, Metallic

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

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• Luminous,
  unfearful;
  high-priestesses,
  our fervour
  shall banish
  all evil.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Evil, Religion, Priestesses

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.475, New Directions Publishing

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• Sing
  and your hell is heaven,
  your heaven less hell.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Heaven, Singing, Hell

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.252, New Directions Publishing

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• I fear no man, no woman;
  flower does not fear
  bird, insect nor adder.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fear, Flower, Men

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.295, New Directions Publishing

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• Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
  the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
  though our books are a floor
  of smouldering ash under our feet.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Book, Feet, Ashes

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.518, New Directions Publishing

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• O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure

  Hilda Doolittle

  Past, Age, Endure

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• The things I have
  are nameless,
  old and true;
  they may not be named;
  few may live and know.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Knowledge, May, Nameless

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.232, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

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• 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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• Think of the moment you count
  most foul in your life;
  conjure it,
  supplicate,
  pray to it;
  your face is bleak, you retract,
  you dare not remember it.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Fear, Thinking, Faces

  Hilda Doolittle (1924). “Heliodora: And Other Poems”

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• Alas, day, you brought light,
  You trailed splendour
  You showed us god:
  I salute you, most precious one,
  But I go to a new place,
  Another life.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Death, Light, Another Life

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

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• For you are abstract,
  making no mistake,
  slurring no word
  in the rhythm you make,
  the poem,
  writ in the air.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Mistake, Air, Dancing

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.92, New Directions Publishing

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• Music sets up ladders,
  it makes us invisible,
  it sets us apart,
  it lets us escape;
  but from the visible
  there is no escape.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Music, Ladders, Invisible

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

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• There's a black rose growing in your garden.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Garden, Rose, Black

  Hilda Doolittle (1981). “HERmione”, p.82, New Directions Publishing

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• Escape
  from the power of the hunting pack,
  and to know that wisdom is best
  and beauty
  sheer holiness.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Hunting, Holiness, Worship

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.228, New Directions Publishing

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• The Christos-image
  is most difficult to disentangle
  from its art-craft junk-shop
  paint-and-plaster medieval jumble
  of pain-worship and death-symbol.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Jesus, Art, Pain

  Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.18, New Directions Publishing

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• 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

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• Cheat me not with time,
  with the dull ache of flesh,
  for all flesh turns,
  even the loveliest
  ankle and frail thigh,
  to bitterest dust.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Time, Dust, Ankles

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.287, New Directions Publishing

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• O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate,
  you can not thwart
  the promptings of my soul.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Hate, Soul, Ruthless

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

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• She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Mean, Looks, Said

  Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Bid me to live: a madrigal”

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• 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

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• There is no man can take,
  there is no pool can slake,
  ultimately I am alone;
  ultimately I am done.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Men, Solitude, Done

  Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

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• The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Wine, Purple, Offering

  Hilda Doolittle, “Orchard”

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• 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

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• 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

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