Doolittle

Famous quotes containing the word doolittle:

    “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.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “I will rise
    from my troth
    with the dead.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

    “Lift up our eyes to you?
    no, God, we stare and stare,
    upon a nearer thing
    that greets us here,
    Death, violent and near.”
    —Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)