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Hilda Doolittle

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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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Dance until the earth dance.
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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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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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A slight wind shakes the seed-pods my thoughts are spent as the black seeds.
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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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(Those women whom the distaff no longer claims nor spun cloth) driven made, mad, mad by Bacchus.
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Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song
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There's a black rose growing in your garden.
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Light threatens, is active, is gone, so it is with a song.
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I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.
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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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Luminous, unfearful high-priestesses, our fervour shall banish all evil.
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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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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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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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It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.
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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.
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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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