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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.

Hilda Doolittle

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The stallion and his mare, unbridled, with arrow-pattern, are worked on. the blue cloth before the door of religion and inspiration.
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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.
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.
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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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Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)
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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.
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There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!
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Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged for passionate flight.
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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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There's a black rose growing in your garden.
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I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.
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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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I will be free, no lover's kiss to bind me to earth, no bliss of love to counteract actual bliss.
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Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.
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Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.
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I myself have seen the floating ships And nothing will ever be the same The shouts, The harrowing voices within the house. I stand apart with an army: My mind is graven with ships.
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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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The things I have are nameless, old and true they may not be named few may live and know.
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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
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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.
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