"She did not look at the daffodils. They……" — Hilda Doolittle
"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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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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...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?
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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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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 Daffodil Quotes
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When we were in the woods beyond Gowbarrow Park we saw a few daffodils close to the waterside. But as…
— Dorothy Wordsworth
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Fallen leaves lying on the grass in the November sun bring more happiness than the daffodils.
— Cyril Connolly
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You've developed the strength of a draft horse while holding onto the delicacy of a daffodil ... you are the…
— Unknown Author
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I plant daffodil bulbs about eight inches deep. As I mentioned before, I don't use a ruler. As a married…
— Cassandra Danz
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What is meant by reality? It would seem to be something very erratic, very undependable - now to be found…
— Virginia Woolf
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I love spring flowers: daffodils and hyacinths are the ultimate flower for me. They are the essence of spring.
— Kirsty Gallacher
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It is daffodil time, so the robins all cry, For the sun's a big daffodil up in the sky, And…
— Clinton Scollard
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April Rain It is not raining rain to me, It's raining daffodils; In every dimpled drop I see Wild flowers…
— Robert Loveman
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Come into the garden, Maud, For the black bat, night, has flown Come into the garden, Maud, I am here…
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
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The key of D is daffodil yellow, B major is maroon, and B flat is blue.
— Marian McPartland
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When I bought my farm, I did not know what a bargain I had in the bluebirds, daffodils and thrushes;…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Picasso said that no one has to explain a daffodil. Good design is understandable to virtually everybody. You never have…
— Hugh Newell Jacobsen
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