Hilda Doolittle Quotes about Love

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Ah love is bitter and sweet, but which is more sweet the bitterness or the sweetness, none has spoken it.

Love, Sweet, Bitterness

Hilda Doolittle (1988). “Selected Poems”, p.31, New Directions Publishing

The whole white world is ours.

Love, White, World

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.134, New Directions Publishing

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.

Love, Perseverance, Hands

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

Dead men would start and move toward me to learn of love.

Love, Moving, Men

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.340, New Directions Publishing

I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.

Love, Sweet, Mouths

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.157, New Directions Publishing

Love that I bear within my breast how is my armour melted how my heart

Love, Heart, Bears

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.137, New Directions Publishing

Love is a garment riven in the light that rises from Parnassus, showing the night is over.

Love, Night, Light

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.269, New Directions Publishing

Love has no charm when Love is swept to earth: you'd make a lop-winged god, frozen and contrite, of god up-darting, winged for passionate flight.

Love, Passionate, Frozen

Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.172, New Directions Publishing