"Let Love step down, open the clasped hands, forfeit the thorny crown, retrieve the garment that was whole, body and spirit one, spirit and soul."

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Source : Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.481, New Directions Publishing

Hilda Doolittle

#Love Quotes #Perseverance Quotes #Hands Quotes

“I worked before I had my daughter, enough for three actresses.”
“My most important title is still â€œmom-in-chief.”
“I believe in the future resolution of these two states, dream and reality, which are seemingly so contradictory, into a kind of absolute reality, a surreality, if one may so speak.”
“We now had impressive evidence that low protein intake could markedly decrease enzyme activity and prevent dangerous carcinogen binding to DNA.”

Source : T. Colin Campbell, Thomas M. Campbell (II.) (2013). “The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-Term Health”, p.57, BenBella Books, Inc.
“The prime role of a leader is to offer an example of courage and sacrifice.”
“Africa is a paradox which illustrates and highlights neo-colonialism . Her earth is rich, yet the products that come from above and below the soil continue to enrich, not Africans predominantly, but groups and individuals who operate to Africaâ€™s impoverishment.”

Source : Kwame Nkrumah (1965). “Neo-colonialism: The Last Stage of Imperialism”
“I was the little, funny one. I felt I was the child among grown women.”
“Where does discontent start? You are warm enough, but you shiver. You are fed, yet hunger gnaws you. You have been loved, but your yearning wanders in new fields. And to prod all these there's time, the Bastard Time.”

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