H.D.

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

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

"The reason is: rats leave the sinking ship but we... we... didn't leave, so the ship didn't sink, and that's madness, Lear's song that's Touchstone's forest jest, that's swan of Avon logic."

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

"I knew all the poets-their poems-when I was quite young. (Who were your favorites?) G.P.: I loved Robinson Jeffers. I loved Auden, I loved H.D."