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Hilda Doolittle Inspirational Quotes (52)

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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?
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Passionate grave thought, belief enhanced, ritual returned and magic.
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The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.
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Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.
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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.
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It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.
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She did not look at the daffodils. They didn't mean anything. She looked at the daffodils. She said, 'Thank you for the daffodils.
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Sing and your hell is heaven, your heaven less hell.
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(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.
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Dance until the earth dance.
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Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song
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When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us
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Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
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The fallen hazel-nuts, Stripped late of their green sheaths, The grapes, red-purple, Their berries Dripping with wine, Pomegranates already broken, And shrunken fig, And quinces untouched, I bring thee as offering.
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But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.
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Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
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The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.
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I testify to rainbow feathers, to the span of heaven and walls of colour, the colonnades of jasper.
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Luminous, unfearful high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.
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Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.
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There's a black rose growing in your garden.
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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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I fear no man, no woman flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.
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