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I fear no man, no woman flower does not fear bird, insect nor adder.

Hilda Doolittle

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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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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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My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.
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Dance until the earth dance.
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Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
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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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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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