Quotes by Hilda Doolittle - Page 2

Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Love
Bitterness
Love Is
Sweet
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But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Beauty
Rocks
Sea
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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 / Poet
Air
Dancing
Mistake
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...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Ifs
Judgement
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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 / Poet
Life
Fighting
Race
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The Greeks have snatched up their spears. They have pointed the helms of their ships Toward the bulwarks of Troy.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Anger
War
Greek
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We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Life
Heaven
Maps
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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 / Poet
Death
War
Eye
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When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Remember Something
Thinking
Use
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Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Beauty
Daughter
Eye
White
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In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies; in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Garden
Loss
Wind
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We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Change
People
World
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Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Time
Purple
Years
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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 / Poet
Music
Invisible
Ladders
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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 / Poet
Beauty
Cities
Youth
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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 / Poet
Looks
Mean
Said
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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 / Poet
Ashes
Book
Feet
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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 / Poet
Life
Cells
Reality
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The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Art
Blue
Inspiration
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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 / Poet
Time
Ankles
Dust
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Take what the old-church found in Mithra's tomb, candle and script and bell, take what the new-church spat upon and broke and shattered.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Poetry
Church
Iconoclasm
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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 / Poet
Death
Another Life
Light
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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 / Poet
Love
Hands
Perseverance
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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 / Poet
Love
Frozen
Passionate
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Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees . . .
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Cities
Gold
Venice
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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 / Poet
Art
Jesus
Pain
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No man will be present in those mysteries, yet all men will kneel, no man will be potent, important, yet all men will feel what it is to be a woman.
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Men
Important
Mystery
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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 / Poet
Fear
Faces
Thinking
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That way of inspiration is always open, and open to everyone; it acts as go-between, interpreter, it explains symbols of the past in to-day's imagery.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Art
Dream
Inspiration
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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.
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Experience
Knowledge
Life
Doors
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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 / Poet
War
Loss
Sea
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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 / Poet
Beauty
Beautiful
Lying
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The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the round and the half-loaf, the grain of a petal, the rain-bow and the rain.
Hilda Doolittle / Poet
Medicine
Philosophy
Rain
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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.
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War
Army
Voice
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remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall exhausted, numb, blind but in certain ecstasy, for theirs is the hunger for Paradise.
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Apples
Fall
Tree
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Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)
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Brain
Heart
Skulls
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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.
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Beauty
Expression
Selfish
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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 / Poet
Offering
Purple
Wine
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