“We don't have to know,only to be:let go the jumble of worn words,reason and vanity.”
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Famous Hilda Doolittle Quotes
Source: Selected poems
Source: Trilogy
Source: Trilogy
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Luminous, unfearful; high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Trilogy
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Selected poems
“The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“O ruthless, perilous, imperious hate, you can not thwart the promptings of my soul.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.”
Source: Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected poems
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Trilogy
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“No one knows the colour of a flower till it is broken.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“No one knows, the heart of a child, how it grows until it is too late.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Fall the deep curtains, delicate the weave, fair the thread.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Trilogy
Source: Trilogy
“The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
Source: Selected poems
Source: Selected poems
“(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.”
“I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone; ultimately I am done.”
Source: Selected poems
“I had drawn away into the salt, myself, a shell emptied of life.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944
“Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.”
Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944