12 Quotes by Hilda Doolittle

...if you do not even understand what words say, how can you expect to pass judgement on what words conceal?

So you may say, Greek flower; Greek ecstasy Reclaims Forever One who died Following Intricate Song’s lost Measure.

Our minds can go no further. The human imagination is capable of no further expression of beauty than the carved owl of Athene, the archaic, marble serpent, the arrogant selfish head of the Acropolis Apollo.

Dance until the earth dance.

Words were her plague and words were her redemption.

O do not weep, she says, for ages past I was and I endure.

Writing. Love is writing.

There’s a black rose growing in your garden.

The whole white world is ours.