Doolittle

Famous quotes containing the word doolittle:

“Soft are the hands of Love,
but what soft hands
clutched at the thorny ground,
scratched like a small white ferret
or foraging whippet or hound.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Who dreams of a son,
save one,
childless, having no bright
face to flatter its own,
who dreams of a son?”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“Knowing that you shall feel,
about the frame,
no trembling of the string
but heat, more passionate
of bone and the white shell
and fiery tempered steel.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)