"Squalor spreads its hideous length through the carts……" — Hilda Doolittle
"Squalor spreads its hideous length through the carts and the asses' feet, squalor coils and reopens and creeps under barrow and heap of refuse...."
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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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More Asses Quotes
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one of 130 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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In the education of children there is nothing like alluring the interest and affection; otherwise you only make so many…
— Michel de Montaigne
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Doesn't it show us all that we are silly little boys or fatuous asses to think that we can play…
— Bobby Jones
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Imma violate yall asses like Chris Stokes.
— Nicki Minaj
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[About her boyfriend Barrie] We kick each others asses. We give each other input every night.
— Lana Del Rey
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These stupid peasants, who, throughout the world, hold potentates on their thrones, make statesmen illustrious, provide generals with lasting victories,…
— Stephen Crane
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It is the mission of the pedagogue, not to make his pupils think, but to make them think right, and…
— H. L. Mencken
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The intellect of two thousand asses cannot bring forth a single man's thought.
— Muhammad Iqbal
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But it certainly is a wonderful thing to wake up suddenly in the solitude of the woods and look up…
— Thomas Merton
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Look, we're Americans: optimistic, addicted to the quick fix, constantly on the hunt for the new and exotic. It's much…
— Dennis Miller
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We do need knowledge. And perhaps in a thousand years we might pick smaller cliffs to jump off. The books…
— Ray Bradbury
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I named my son Noah for the same reason Chris Martin named his apple: we're asses.
— Thom Yorke
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The Senate decided they will be smoke-free. They ordained that all public areas in the Senate are now smoke-free. However,…
— Bill Maher
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