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The whole white world is ours.

Hilda Doolittle

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In my garden the winds have beaten the ripe lilies in my garden, the salt has wilted the first flakes of young narcissus.
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Dance until the earth dance.
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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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There is no man can take, there is no pool can slake, ultimately I am alone ultimately I am done.
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Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song
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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 . . .
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod.
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The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.
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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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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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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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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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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
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I fear no man, no woman flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.
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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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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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There must be real gods see, the painted gods how fair!
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I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.
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