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I fear no man, no woman flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.
Hilda Doolittle
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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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The heart the heart the heart how it thrives on hate.
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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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My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.
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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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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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Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song
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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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When the shingles hissed in the rain incendiary, other values were revealed to us
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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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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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Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
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We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded we have no map possibly we will reach haven, heaven.
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A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.
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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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Lovers may come and go, there was the memory of blood, the low call.
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Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul.
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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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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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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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