"...if you do not even understand what words……" — Hilda Doolittle
"...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?"
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Hilda Doolittle
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20 Quotes by Hilda Doolittle
Hilda Doolittle has 20 quotes on this site.
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War is a fevered god who takes alike maiden and king and clod....
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Dance until the earth dance.
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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…
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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,…
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The laying of fish on the embers, the taste of the fish, the feel of the texture of bread, the…
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remember the golden apple-trees; O, do not pity them, as you watch them drop one by one, for they fall…
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There's a black rose growing in your garden.
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Writing. Love is writing.
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Words were her plague and words were her redemption.
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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…
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O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure
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Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.
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More Conceal Quotes
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one of 308 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Like many modern poets, I tend to conceal rhymes by placing them in the middle of lines, and to avoid…
— Margaret Atwood
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A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.
— Jane Austen
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Theatre director: a person engaged by the management to conceal the fact that the players cannot act.
— James Agate
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Conceal a flaw, and the world will imagine the worst.
— Martial
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The only difference between an artist and a lunatic is, perhaps, that the artist has the restraint or courtesy to…
— Osbert Sitwell
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If you only notice human proceedings, you may observe that all who attain great power and riches, make use of…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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The people resemble a wild beast, which, naturally fierce and accustomed to live in the woods, has been brought up,…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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When pressure mounts and strain increases everyone begins to show the weaknesses in his makeup. It is up to the…
— Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Many men nourish a pride which urges them to conceal their struggles and show themselves only as conquerors.
— Honore de Balzac
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Poverty is often concealed in splendor, and often in extravagance. It is the task of many people to conceal their…
— Samuel Johnson
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If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for…
— Robert Louis Stevenson
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You're an Attorney. It's your duty to lie, conceal, and distort everything, and slander everybody.
— Jean Giraudoux
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