We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.

- Hilda Doolittle

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

- Hilda Doolittle

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

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

- Hilda Doolittle

Dance until the earth dance.

- Hilda Doolittle

The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.

- Hilda Doolittle

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

- Hilda Doolittle

For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.

- Hilda Doolittle

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