Trilogy Quotes

“...if you do not even understand what words say,
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?”
― H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“We are voyagers, discoverers
of the not-known,
the unrecorded;
we have no map;
possibly we will reach haven,
heaven.”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“Let us search the old highways.”
― H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“let us not teach / what we have learned badly / and not profited by”
― H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“grape, knife, cup, wheat / are symbols in eternity, / and every concrete object / has abstract value, is timeless / in the dream parallel”
― H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“I go where I love and where I am loved,
into the snow;
I go to the things I love
with no thought of duty or pity;

I go where I belong, inexorably,
as the rain that has lain long

from “The Flowering of the Rod [2]”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“but if you do not even understand what words say
how can you expect to pass judgement
on what words conceal?”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“grape, knife, cup, wheat
are symbols in eternity,
and every concrete object
has abstract value, is timeless
in the dream parallel”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“let us not teach
what we have learned badly
and not profited by”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod

“in the bowl distill
a word most bitter, marah,
a word bitterer still, mar,
sea, brine, breaker, seducer . . .
till marah-mar
are melted, fuse and join
and change and alter,
mer, mere, mère, mater, Maia, Mary,
Star of the Sea,
Mother.”
― H.D., Trilogy: The Walls Do Not Fall / Tribute to the Angels / The Flowering of the Rod