"Until it seems the whole city will be……" — Hilda Doolittle
"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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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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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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Consider the birds. Be wise as serpents.
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More Bees Quotes
This quote is filed under Bees Quotes,
one of 437 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Aerodynamically, the bumble bee shouldn't be able to fly, but the bumble bee doesn't know it so it goes on…
— Mary Kay Ash
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That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.
— Marcus Aurelius
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We ought to do good to others as simply as a horse runs, or a bee makes honey, or a…
— Marcus Aurelius
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Swallows have disappeared, bees are dying out because of pesticides that should have been banned long ago - it's a…
— Brigitte Bardot
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All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power. The…
— Charles A. Beard
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Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee.
— Muhammad Ali
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You've never seen death? Look in the mirror every day and you will see it like bees working in a…
— Jean Cocteau
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The sceptics, like bees, give their one sting and die.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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The sky was of the deepest blue, with a few white, fleecy clouds drifting lazily across it, and the air…
— Arthur Conan Doyle
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Here is a little forest Whose leaf is ever green; Here is a brighter garden, Where not a frost has…
— Emily Dickinson
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According to aerodynamic laws, the bumblebee cannot fly. Its body weight is not the right proportion to its wingspan. Ignoring…
— Unknown Author
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The number of humble-bees in any district depends in a great degree on the number of field-mice, which destroy their…
— Charles Darwin
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