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“The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.” quote by Hilda Doolittle — Download Open image

“The things I have are nameless, old and true; they may not be named; few may live and know.”

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“Sheltered Garden" I have had enough. I gasp for breath. Every way ends, every road, every foot-path leads at last to the hill-crest-- then you retrace your steps, or find the same slope on the other side, precipitate. I have had enough-- border-pinks, clove-pinks, wax-lilies, herbs, sweet-cress. O for some sharp swish of a branch-- there is no scent of…

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The Christos-image is most difficult to disentangle from its art-craft junk-shop paint-and-plaster medieval jumble of pain-worship and death-symbol.

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When you would think, "what was the use of it," you'll remember something you can't grasp and you'll wonder what it was.

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The quivering of Psyche's butterflies.

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Thoth, Hermes, the stylus, the palette, the pen, the quill endure, though our books are a floor of smouldering ash under our feet.

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My eye-balls are glass, my limbs marble, my face fixed in its marble mask.

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