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For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.

For this beauty, beauty without strength, chokes out life.

Hilda Doolittle
Life, Beauty, Choke
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.12, New Directions Publishing

O beautiful white land, olives and wild anemone and violet mingled among the shale, and purple wings of little winter-butterflies say, here Psyche, the soul, lies.

Hilda Doolittle
Beauty, Beautiful, Lying
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.332, New Directions Publishing

But beauty is set apart, beauty is cast by the sea, a barren rock, beauty is set about with wrecks of ships.

Hilda Doolittle
Beauty, Rocks, Sea
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.126, New Directions Publishing

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.

Hilda Doolittle
Beauty, Selfish, Expression
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.327, New Directions Publishing

Could beauty be beaten out, O youth the cities have sent to strike at each other's strength, it is you who have kept her alight.

Hilda Doolittle
Beauty, Cities, Youth
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.68, New Directions Publishing

Maid of the luminous grey-eyes, Mistress of honey and marble implacable white thighs and Goddess, chaste daughter of Zeus.

Hilda Doolittle
Beauty, Daughter, Eye
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.291, New Directions Publishing

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