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We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

We are voyagers, discoverers of the not-known, the unrecorded; we have no map; possibly we will reach haven, heaven.

Hilda Doolittle
Life, Heaven, Maps
Hilda Doolittle (1998). “Trilogy”, p.43, New Directions Publishing

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.

Hilda Doolittle
Life, Reality, Cells
Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.172, New Directions Publishing

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

I smiled, I waited, I was circumspect; O never, never, never write that I missed life or loving.

Hilda Doolittle
Life, Writing, Loving Life
Hilda Doolittle (1983). “Priest, & a Dead Priestess Speaks”

I knew the poor, I knew the hideous death they die, when famine lays its bleak hand on the door; I knew the rich, sated with merriment, who yet are sad.

Hilda Doolittle
Life, Knowledge, Doors
Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.120, New Directions Publishing

The race may or may not be to the swift, but tell me, is it likely that the fight will be entrusted to the dead?

Hilda Doolittle
Life, Fighting, Race
Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.323, New Directions Publishing

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