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H.D.
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“Like a bird out of our hand, / Like a light out of our heart, / You are gone.”
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“Soft are the hands of Love, / soft, soft are his feet ...”
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“... ritual is rooted in earth, / ancient and blest.”
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“... heaven is a near / translatable thing; / it's here, / it's there ...”
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“... irony is bitter truth / wrapped up in a little joke.”
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“... we have not crawled so very far / up our individual grass-blade / toward our individual star.”
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“... music sets up ladders, / it makes us invisible, / it sets us apart, / it lets us escape ...”
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“Life was lived to the very extreme edge of possibility, it was lived dangerously with danger taken-for-granted. But pass the danger point, step over the last-straw edge of everything, and nothing matters, you watch your own body being vivisected and take part, encourage the dissector.”
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“The potion is not poison, / it is not Lethe and forgetfulness / but everlasting memory.”
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“... my verse, / I can't get away from it, / I've tried to ...”
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“... love built on dreams / of the forgotten first unsatisfied embrace, / is satisfied.”
H.D., U.S. poet
(1886 - 1961)
Full name: Hilda Doolittle Aldington.