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I'm more of a writer than a fighter you see. — Luke Pearson

be counterproductive. Hilda's — Stephen King

Not God
with wine,
nor death,
nor hate for a cry,
but God with a song — Hilda Doolittle

You are as old as God and as young as the morning. — Hilda Charlton

Everyone teaches you something. Some teach you what to do, and others teach you what not to do. — Hilda Charlton

The heart
the heart
the heart
how it thrives on hate. — Hilda Doolittle

There is no man can take,
there is no pool can slake,
ultimately I am alone;
ultimately I am done. — Hilda Doolittle

Cheat me not with time,
with the dull ache of flesh,
for all flesh turns,
even the loveliest
ankle and frail thigh,
to bitterest dust. — Hilda Doolittle

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

O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship. — Hilda Doolittle

Fall the deep curtains,
delicate the weave,
fair the thread. — Hilda Doolittle

Hilda and I slept alongside each other fully dressed, head to feet. — Stanley Spencer

There must be real gods
see, the painted gods
how fair! — Hilda Doolittle

My parents raised me and my six siblings with little money ... but lots of love. — Hilda Solis

To all of us who hold the Christian belief that God is truth, anything that is true is a fact about God, and mathematics is a branch of theology. — Hilda Phoebe Hudson

Light threatens, is active, is gone,
so it is with a song. — Hilda Doolittle

Sing
and your hell is heaven,
your heaven less hell. — Hilda Doolittle

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

We are these people,
wistful, ironical, wilful,
who have no part in
new-world reconstruction,
in the confederacy of labour. — Hilda Doolittle

Every concrete object
has abstract value, is timeless
in the dream parallel. — Hilda Doolittle

God? A surface of ice anchored to laughter. That was God. — Hilda Hilst

Take what you have and make what you want. — Hilda Charlton

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

War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod ... — Hilda Doolittle

I had drawn away into the salt,
myself, a shell
emptied of life. — 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

One must not judge other cultures by the standars of one's one,' said Aunt Hilda — Eva Ibbotson

The 'leisured' wife was a badge of achievement, the ornament to hard work and virtue for families on the way up. — Hilda Scott

The world turns softly / Not to spill its lakes and rivers. — Hilda Conkling

You are wind in a stark tree,
you are the stark tree unbent,
you are a strung bow,
you are an arrow. — Hilda Doolittle

One flower may slay the winter
and meet death. — Hilda Doolittle

Love that I bear
within my breast
how is my armour melted
how my heart — Hilda Doolittle

My parents were both union members, and I grew up hearing how important it was to empower workers and have fair labor practices. — Hilda Solis

Dance until the earth dance. — Hilda Doolittle

But beauty is set apart,
beauty is cast by the sea,
a barren rock,
beauty is set about
with wrecks of ships ... — Hilda Doolittle

People have to be reminded that unions played a very historic role in our economy. — Hilda Solis

My role was to bring about fairness in the workplace. All I did was implement the laws that were currently on the books. — Hilda Solis

No one knows,
the heart of a child,
how it grows
until it is too late. — Hilda Doolittle

Lovers may come and go,
there was the memory of blood,
the low call. — Hilda Doolittle

The personal is not just political. It is also economic. — Hilda Scott

Oh Hilda, what a treasure of sweet faith and pure imagination you hide under that little straw hat! — Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

For this beauty,
beauty without strength,
chokes out life. — Hilda Doolittle

I smiled,
I waited,
I was circumspect;
O never, never, never write that I
missed life or loving. — Hilda Doolittle

Your free will, your decision, your soul, — Hilda Leticia Dominguez

Aunt Hilda,' Violet — Laurel Remington

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

No one has the right to threaten the health, education, and well-being of children by involving them in illegal or inappropriate work. — Hilda Solis

The best advice I can give women at all levels is increase training. There are still areas where we have to break through that glass ceiling. — Hilda Solis

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

When the shingles hissed
in the rain incendiary,
other values were revealed to us — Hilda Doolittle

The Greeks have snatched up their spears.
They have pointed the helms of their ships
Toward the bulwarks of Troy. — Hilda Doolittle

She thought it must be a lonely life for a boy who hated books. — Hilda Van Stockum

The stallion and his mare,
unbridled, with arrow-pattern,
are worked on.
the blue cloth
before the door
of religion and inspiration ... — Hilda Doolittle

Still bothers me that there's nothing on the news about it," Hilda — Robert Boren

Thoth, Hermes, the stylus,
the palette, the pen, the quill endure,
though our books are a floor
of smouldering ash under our feet. — Hilda Doolittle

turned up that Sunday — Hilda Newman

Magic doesn't happen often - not once in a blue moon ... I expect there isn't another magic ship like this one in the whole world. — Hilda Lewis

The race may or may not be to the swift,
but tell me, is it likely
that the fight will be entrusted to the dead? — Hilda Doolittle

Love is a garment
riven in the light
that rises from Parnassus,
showing
the night is over. — Hilda Doolittle

O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate,
you can not thwart
the promptings of my soul. — Hilda Doolittle

The things I have
are nameless,
old and true;
they may not be named;
few may live and know. — Hilda Doolittle

There is no magic when one no longer believes. — Hilda Lewis

In my teens, I worked as an aide in my community supervising and mentoring youth in various programs and delivering lunches to needy students. — Hilda Solis

I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder. — Hilda Doolittle

Ah love is bitter and sweet,
but which is more sweet
the bitterness or the sweetness,
none has spoken it. — Hilda Doolittle

Dead men would start and move
toward me to learn of love. — Hilda Doolittle

Why wait for Death to mow?
why wait for Death to sow
us in the ground? — Hilda Doolittle

Protecting children and vulnerable workers abroad is a part of our overall efforts here at the Department of Labor. — Hilda Solis

The newspaper Hilda gets delivered would call me evil. The one I buy on the corner would say it's more complicated than that. — Sam Lipsyte

Escape
from the power of the hunting pack,
and to know that wisdom is best
and beauty
sheer holiness. — Hilda Doolittle

For you are abstract,
making no mistake,
slurring no word
in the rhythm you make,
the poem,
writ in the air. — Hilda Doolittle

A slight wind shakes the seed-pods
my thoughts are spent
as the black seeds. — Hilda Doolittle

Lift up our eyes to you?
no, God, we stare and stare,
upon a nearer thing
that greets us here,
Death, violent and near. — Hilda Doolittle

I want companies who get federal contracts to hire more women and minorities from the local area. — Hilda Solis

The quivering
of Psyche's butterflies. — Hilda Doolittle

I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect. — Hilda Doolittle

No family should have to depend on the labor of its children to put food on the table and no person should be forced to work in captivity. — Hilda Solis

Until it seems the whole city will be covered with gold pollen shaken from the bell-towers, lilies plundered with the weight of massive bees ... — Hilda Doolittle

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

The moon is at her crystal window / Spinning and weaving ... — Hilda Conkling

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

What all women have in common is that they share most of the unpaid work of the world. — Hilda Scott

If only my heart could abstain
from love.

The more I seethe with desire
The more I seem to attract. — Hilda Ismail

You will not see
that desire begets
love,
until it all flames
into one concise
and metallic blaze. — Hilda Doolittle

Passionate grave thought,
belief enhanced,
ritual returned and magic. — Hilda Doolittle

If you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal? — H.D.

The siren heralds a friend, the bee a stranger. — Hilda M. Ransome

I testify
to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven
and walls of colour,
the colonnades of jasper. — Hilda Doolittle

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

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

The whole white world is ours. — Hilda Doolittle

It is no madness to say
you will fall, you great cities. — Hilda Doolittle

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

Could beauty be beaten out,
O youth the cities have sent
to strike at each other's strength,
it is you who have kept her alight. — Hilda Doolittle

Music sets up ladders,
it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape. — Hilda Doolittle

No one knows the colour of a flower
till it is broken. — Hilda Doolittle

Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford? — Hilda Doolittle

I will be free,
no lover's kiss
to bind me to earth,
no bliss of love
to counteract
actual bliss. — Hilda Doolittle

I spit
honey out of my mouth:
nothing is second-best
after the sweet of Eros. — Hilda Doolittle