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.
We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity. - Hilda Doolittle
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
We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.
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
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.
Dance until the earth dance. - Hilda Doolittle
Dance until the earth dance.
Words were her plague and words were her redemption. - Hilda Doolittle
Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. - Hilda Doolittle
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.
The quivering of Psyche's butterflies. - Hilda Doolittle
The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.
For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life. - Hilda Doolittle
For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
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
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.
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