"We have given until we have no more……" — Hilda Doolittle
"We have given until we have no more to give; alas, it was pity, rather than love, we gave; now having given all, let us leave all; above all, let us leave pity and mount higher to love resurrection."
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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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