"No poetic phantasy but a biological reality, a fact: I am an entity like bird, insect, plant or sea-plant cell; I live; I am alive."

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Source : Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

Hilda Doolittle

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“I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school.”

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“It is not poverty so much as pretense that harasses a ruined man - the struggle between a proud mind and an empty purse - the keeping up of a hollow show that must soon come to an end.”
“Is the mean temperature of the ground in any way influenced by the presence of heat-absorbing gases in the atmosphere?”
“The worst day coaching is better than the best day doing anything else”
“In Nashville, as in every other city, there's no substitute for hard work.”
“Those who dive in the sea of affliction bring up rare pearls.”
“We come here because we too feel a responsibility for the human community. To preserve and develop a human quality of life is the common responsibility of us all. It is not fitting that those concerned with the various aspects of the human be alienated from each other. Both you and ourselves represent forces too profound and aim at objectives too significant for either of us to succeed completely without the assistance of the other. The urgency of our work impels us to get on with our common task lest a new period of disaster erupt over the Earth.”
“In the dance, one finds the cinema, the comic strips, the Olympic hundred meters and swimming, and what's more, poetry, love and tenderness.”

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