"Soft are the hands of Love, but what……" — Hilda Doolittle
"Soft are the hands of Love, but what soft hands clutched at the thorny ground, scratched like a small white ferret or foraging whippet or hound."
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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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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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The dead carry with them to the grave in their clutched hands only that which they have given away.
— DeWitt Wallace
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She clutched the train ticket tighter and waited for the sense of escape to come over her as it had…
— Connie Brockway
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Father, let me be weak that I might loose my clutch on everything temporal. My life, my reputation, my possessions,…
— Jim Elliot
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I turned on the pillow with a little moan, and at this juncture Jeeves entered with the vital oolong. I…
— P.G. Wodehouse
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Once I knew the depth where no hope was and darkness lay on the face of all things. Then love…
— Helen Keller
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I know how you clutched my back behind your house and sweated like a stallion whenever I came near!
— Abigail Williams
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The Atheist is God playing at hide and seek with Himself; but is the Theist any other? Well, perhaps; for…
— Sri Aurobindo
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Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the…
— Helen Keller
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The true harvest of my life is intangible - a little star dust caught, a portion of the rainbow I…
— Henry David Thoreau
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Inside me is the same desperate hope I have watching the ravenous dead and thinking, Oh please, oh please, oh…
— Chuck Palahniuk
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The way his plump hand clutched at her hip seemed somehow improper; not morally, aesthetically.
— Truman Capote
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England was a cold, backward, rebellious little kingdom. It's king: Henry the Eighth, remembered principally for his six wives and…
— Kage Baker
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