Famous Quotes by Hilda Doolittle
- Hear, all-merciful, and touch
the fore-head, dim, unlit of pride and thought. More
- You prefer a woman under the earth,
you heap roses above a grave;
a woman under the... More
- Whose kiss
stings and stills;
your kiss was stale, satiate and pale
beside... More
- Now you are a priest,
and she is dead,
you said,
“she was gay;
she suffered too... More
- You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one... More
- As I pass down the corridor
past desperate faces at each cell,
your eyes and my eyes may... More
- It is a strange life,
patterned in fire and letters
on the prison pavement. More
- Waves sparkle and delight
the weary eyes
that never saw the sun fall in the sea
nor... More
- Light takes new attribute
and yet his old
glory
enchants. More
- He shows his splendour
in a little room;
he says to us,
be glad
and laugh,
be... More
- Your souls upon the screen
live lives that might have been,
live lives that ever are. More
- Here in this holy wood,
behold,
behold how good
is man’s inventiveness. More
- Dead men would start and move
toward me to learn of love. More
- You count your lover fair,
your bride or your bride-groom,
yet you would shun the... More
- This is his gift;
light,
light that sears and breaks
us
from old doubts
and... More
- The light of her face falls from its flower,
as a hyacinth,
hidden in a far... More
- For she lies panting,
drawing sharp breath,
broken with harsh sobs,
she,... More
- Not the gold that fastens your sandal,
nor the gold reft
through your chiselled... More
- Each of us like you
has died once,
each of us like you
stands apart, like you
fit... More
- We knew their line invincible
because there fell
on them no shiverings
of the white... More
- We flung against their gods,
invincible, clear hate;
we fought;
frantic, we flung the... More
- My islands
shift and change,
now here, now there,
dazzling,
white,
granite. More
- Give me the islands of the upper air,
all mountains
and the towering mountain trees. More
- Let him go forth radiant,
let life rise in his young breast,
life is radiant,
life is... More
- But I,
how I hate you for this,
how I despise and hate,
was my beauty so slight a... More
- For one moment seek
a lesser beauty
and a lesser grace,
but you will find
no... More
- I offer you this,
(grant only strength
that I withdraw not my gift)
I give you my... More
- O do not weep, she says,
for ages past I was
and I endure. More
- Sainted ones,
your chastened hearts,
your empty frames,
your very bones
still... More
- Remember these (you said)
who when the earth-quake shook their city,
when angry blast and... More
- Where, Corinth, charm incarnate, are your shrines? More
- War wreaked on you his hideous ravishment;
We, we alone, Nereids inviolate,
Remain to... More
- The stallion and his mare,
unbridled, with arrow-pattern,
are worked on.
the blue... More
- Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread. More
- There must be real gods
see, the painted gods
how fair! More
- You really were a panther, a wild-cat,
who tore me limb from limb;
my thanks for that. More
- O beautiful white land,
olives and wild anemone and violet
mingled among the... More
- The very form, the very scent,
not heavy, not sensuous,
but perilous perilous
of... More
- Flower sent to flower;
for white hands, the lesser white,
less lovely of flower leaf. More
- Veils to my eyes?
nay, do not be afraid
that they will dart forth
serpents of appeal. More
- Remember
they had slight and simple ways
sometimes,
slight, simple-hearted,... More
- What they did
they did for Dionysos,
for ecstasy’s sake: More
- Think of the moment you count
most foul in your life;
conjure... More
- Swift while the woof is whole,
turn now my spirit, swift,
and tear the pattern... More
- The sea
takes on that desperate tone
of dark that wives put on
when all their love is... More
- Hieratic, slim and fair,
the tracery written here,
proclaims what’s left unsaid
in... More
- See,
how they trace
across the very-marble
of this place,
bright sevens and... More
- O do not grieve
for a torn earth
barren fields burnt forests
cracked riven... More
- You are even a world,
a planet,
and pass from history
and the day’s event.
to... More
- Why wait for Death to mow?
why wait for Death to sow
us in the ground? More
- Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the... More
- O spirit, white,
and versed in mystic lore,
beware,
too soon, too soon
you think... More
- Yet rapture, the very loveliest,
changes, inbreeds
blackest despair. More
- I was alone
now
my beautiful peace has gone;
did I ask you here? More
- O you sand,
this is my command,
drown all men in slow breathless suffocation
then... More
- My trance frightens them,
breaks the dance,
empties the market-place;
if I but pass... More
- Speak, nameless, power and might;
when will you leave me quite?
when will you break my... More
- May I not wed
as you have wed?
may it not break, beauty,
from out my hands, my head,... More
- Nor at so fair a pace
open the flower-petals
as your face bends down,
while, breath... More
- Fair are these petals
broken by your feet;
your horse’s hooves
tread softer than a... More
- Chance says,
come here,
chance says,
can you bear
to part? More
- I hear
dire threat
everywhere;
I start
at wind
in sycamores. More
- The things I have
are nameless,
old and true;
they may not be named;
few may live... More
- Desire crept to your knees. More
- You praised and knew
the song they made was worthless
and the note,
they sung
was... More
- Take from me something,
be it all too fine
and untranslatable and worthless
for your... More
- You did not sense the wings beyond the gate;
you could not see,
you could not touch and... More
- I’ll stake all my soul
on that beauty,
till God shall awake
again in men’s... More
- You had gained,
you outleapt them;
a sudden, swift lift of the reins,
a sudden,... More
- We near heaven’s hills with this,
God’s asphodels,
O stay,
stay close,
bend... More
- The quivering
of Psyche’s butterflies. More
- Long hours
trail in their purple
and long years are lost
in just this... More
- He smiles
and all the effrontery of all my race
rises to meet his smiling, cynical... More
- Lay again
your head here, here;
there is no pain,
no disenchantment, no, nor evil... More
- Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night... More
- Give me your poppies,
let their radiance spill
rapture
for ever;
love me,
O... More
- Day by day,
hour by hour,
mysterious,
mystical,
not to be spoken
bliss. More
- Invoke,
invoke
armed Justice;
let Diké stand forth manifest,
let her step forth... More
- (Those women whom the distaff
no longer claims
nor spun cloth)
driven... More
- Think not
by thought, to escape
predestined fate. More
- As the wild-colt
at meadow,
round its mare’s feet,
they beat
ecstatic dance-beat. More
- O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and... More
- Stalk,
stalk the prey,
away,
away to the hills,
hell-hounds of madness,
swift. More
- Daemons have strength,
ritual is rooted in earth,
ancient and blest. More
- Escape
from the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and... More
- Ah, it is sweet on the hills,
to dance in sacred faun-pelt,
to dance until one falls... More
- Dance until the earth dance. More
- We are a little dizzy
and quite mad,
but we have had
strange visitations
from the... More
- To Him, the painted swallow,
to Him, the lump of amber,
to Him, the boy and girl
with... More
- They prayed for a touch,
they cried for the sight of my face,
they entreated me
till... More
- It was easy enough
to bend them to my wish,
it was easy enough
to alter them with a... More
- And in these dark cells,
packed street after street,
souls live, hideous yet
O... More
- Can we believe by an effort
comfort our hearts:
it is not waste all this,
not placed... More
- Ah, bird,
our love is never spent
with your clear note. More
- Calypso heard your call
across the gathering drift
of burning cedar-wood,
across the... More
- I went my own way,
quiet and still by day,
advised my neighbour
on the little... More
- Honour came to me,
though I sought it not;
I died at mid-day, sleeping;
They did not... More
- I smiled,
I waited,
I was circumspect;
O never, never, never write that I
missed... More
- I knew the poor,
I knew the hideous death they die,
when famine lays its bleak hand on... More
- The tears I shed
weren’t bitter things,
so ice-floes in spring
touched by the... More
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