Hilda Doolittle Quotes - Page 4

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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

  Time, Years, Purple

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.254, New Directions Publishing

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• Light threatens, is active, is gone,
  so it is with a song.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Music, Song, Light

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.401, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Philosophy, Rain, Medicine

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.438, New Directions Publishing

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• Ardent
  yet chill and formal,
  how I ache
  to tempt a chisel
  as a sculptor.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Chill, Ache

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

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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

  Beauty, Daughter, Eye

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing

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• There must be real gods
  see, the painted gods
  how fair!

  Hilda Doolittle

  Art, Real, Fairs

  Hilda Doolittle (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.335, New Directions Publishing

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• My eye-balls are glass,
  my limbs marble,
  my face fixed
  in its marble mask.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Eye, Glasses, Magic

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.244, New Directions Publishing

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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

  Poetry, Church, Iconoclasm

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

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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

  Art, Inspiration, Blue

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.476, New Directions Publishing

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• (Those women whom the distaff
  no longer claims
  nor spun cloth)
  driven made,
  mad,
  mad
  by Bacchus.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Drinking, Mad, Worship

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• Lovers may come and go,
  there was the memory of blood,
  the low call.

  Hilda Doolittle

  Memories, Blood, May

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• 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

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• Who dreams of a son,
  save one,
  childless, having no bright
  face to flatter its own,
  who dreams of a son?

  Hilda Doolittle

  Dream, Children, Son

  Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.160, New Directions Publishing

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