"War bent and kissed the forehead, that bright……" — Hilda Doolittle
"War bent and kissed the forehead, that bright brow, ignored the chin and the sweet mouth, for that and the low laugh were his, Eros ingratiate."
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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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Still bent to make some port he knows not where, still standing for some false impossible shore.
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Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires,…
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Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your…
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The idea of reverence for God is transmitted from parent to child, it is educated into an abnormal development, and…
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Sure, I get the blues. But what I try to do, is apply joy to the blues, you know? I…
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People of small caliber are always carping. They are bent on showing their own superiority, their knowledge or prowess or…
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Amsterdam has more than 150 canals and 1,250 bridges, but it never seems crowded, nor bent and bitter from fleecing…
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But how carve way i' the life that lies before, If bent on groaning ever for the past?
— Robert Browning
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The bow cannot always stand bent, nor can human frailty subsist without some lawful recreation.
— Miguel de Cervantes
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My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused…
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As a kid, I spent every summer bent over a stack of books, obsessively writing detailed reports on each one.
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