Keith Douglas Quotes

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Under the parabola of a ball,
a child turning into a man,
I looked into the air too long.
The ball fell in my hand, it sang
In the closed fist: Open Open
Behold a gift designed to kill.

Keith Douglas

Remember me when I am dead
And simplify me when I'm dead.

Keith Douglas

And all my endeavours are unlucky explorers
come back, abandoning the expedition.

Keith Douglas

For here the lover and killer are mingled
who had one body and one heart.
And death, who had the soldier singled
has done the lover mortal hurt.

Keith Douglas

If at times my eyes are lenses
through which the brain explores
constellations of feeling
my ears yielding like swinging doors
admit princes to the corridors
into the mind, do not envy me.
I have a beast on my back

Keith Douglas

The weightless mosquito touches
her tiny shadow on the stone,
and with how like, how infinite
a lightness, man and shadow meet.
They fuse. A shadow is a man
when the mosquito death approaches.

Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas

Keith Douglas

Born: January 24, 1920

Died: June 9, 1944 (aged 24)

Bio: Keith Castellain Douglas was an English poet noted for his war poetry during the Second World War and his wry memoir of the Western Desert campaign, Alamein to Zem Zem. He was killed in action during the invasion of Normandy.

Known for:

Alamein to Zem Zem
Carrier
Complete poems
A Prose Miscellany
The letters

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