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There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!
Hilda Doolittle
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You are wind in a stark tree, you are the stark tree unbent, you are a strung bow, you are an arrow.
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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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Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
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For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.
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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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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
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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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Ardent yet chill and formal, how I ache to tempt a chisel as a sculptor.
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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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Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.
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Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.
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The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.
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