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1886–1961 United States

Hilda Doolittle (September 10, 1886, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, United States – September 27, 1961, Zürich, Switzerland), usually known only by her initials H.D., was an American poet, novelist and memoirist.

United States
Memoirists
Novelists
Poets

Also known as: Doolittle, Hilda, Hilda Doolittle

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We don't have to know,
only to be:
let go the jumble of worn words,
reason and vanity.

Be indigestible, hard, ungiving.
so that, living within,
you beget, self-out-of-self,
selfless,
that pearl-of-great-price.

For one moment seek
a lesser beauty
and a lesser grace,
but you will find
no peace in the end
save in her presence.

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: H.D. (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.