Quotes by H.D.

About H.D.:

Hilda "H.D." Doolittle was an American poet, novelist, and memoirist known for her association with the early 20th century avant-garde Imagist group of poets such as Ezra Pound and Richard Aldington. She published under the pen name of H.D..
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She knew herself the heart of a king buried in a sepulchre (in the land of his love) while the body of the king is elsewhere. My heart lies buried in there like Coeur de Lion (or whoever it was) who had his heart buried at Havre (or wherever it was) ...

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run run run Hermione. You have in your hands a message and a token...run and run and run and run Hermione. You know running and running and running that the messenger will take (lampadephoros) your message in its fervour and you will sink down exhaus...

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The thing she realised in that moment, that fraction of waiting, was lost. Nothing could bring the thing back, no words could make the thing solid and visible and therefore to be coped with. Solid and visible form was what she had been seeking. I wil...

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She didn't know that all her life would be spent gambling with the stark rigidity of words, words that were coin: save, spend and all the time George with his own counter had found her a way out.

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I have tasted words, I have seen them. Never had her hands reached out in darkness and felt the texture of pure marble, never had her forehead bent forward and, as against a stone altar, felt safety. I am now saved. Her mind could not then so specifi...

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That odd infallible sliding-like-crystal air on water that means day's left dawn for morning.

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I will be caught finally, I will be broken. Not broken, incarcerated. Her will be incarcerated in Her.

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Let us search the old highways.

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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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Author Bio

  • NameH.D.
  • DescriptionAmerican Imagist poet
  • AliasesHilda Doolittle; H.D. Imagiste
  • BornSeptember 10, 1886
  • DiedSeptember 27, 1961
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionActor; Poet; Author; Translator; Novelist