Hilda Doolittle Quotes
Top 64 wise famous quotes and sayings by Hilda Doolittle
Hilda Doolittle Famous Quotes & Sayings
Discover top inspirational quotes from Hilda Doolittle on Wise Famous Quotes.

with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust.

the winds have beaten
the ripe lilies;
in my garden, the salt
has wilted the first flakes
of young narcissus.

wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour.

They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy.

beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ...

of the luminous grey-eyes,
Mistress
of honey and marble implacable white thighs
and Goddess,
chaste daughter of Zeus.

"what was the use of it,"
you'll remember
something you can't grasp
and you'll wonder
what it was.

the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet.

unbridled, with arrow-pattern,
are worked on.
the blue cloth
before the door
of religion and inspiration ...

found in Mithra's tomb,
candle and script and bell,
take what the new-church spat upon
and broke and shattered.

no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near.

making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air.

but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it.

but tell me, is it likely
that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

but a biological reality,
a fact: I am an entity
like bird, insect, plant
or sea-plant cell;
I live; I am alive.

of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?

it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape.

O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight.

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