Hilda Doolittle Quotes about Death

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Alas, day, you brought light, You trailed splendour You showed us god: I salute you, most precious one, But I go to a new place, Another life.

Death, Light, Another Life

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.84, New Directions Publishing

Why wait for Death to mow? why wait for Death to sow us in the ground?

Death, War, Waiting

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.477, New Directions Publishing

Lift up our eyes to you? no, God, we stare and stare, upon a nearer thing that greets us here, Death, violent and near.

Death, War, Eye

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.479, New Directions Publishing