H.D. Quotes

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

H.D.
I fear no man, no woman;
flower does not fear
bird, insect nor adder.

H.D.
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.

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

H.D.
So you may say,
"Greek flower; Greek ecstasy reclaims for ever
one who died following
intricate songs' lost measure."

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

H.D.
O happy, happy each
man whom predestined fate
leads to the holy rite
of hill and mountain worship.

H.D.
Music sets up ladders,
it makes us invisible,
it sets us apart,
it lets us escape;
but from the visible
there is no escape.

H.D.
My eye-balls are glass,
my limbs marble,
my face fixed
in its marble mask.

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

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

H.D.
There is no man can take,
there is no pool can slake,
ultimately I am alone;
ultimately I am done.

H.D.
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.

H.D.