the liminal and ephemeral (10 August 2016)

 H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), Scrapbook containing photographs of H. D., Kenneth Mapherson, Bryher, and others with various clippings, Classical architecture, sculpture, etc,
Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Yale University

We are voyagers, discoverers
of the not-known,
the unrecorded; we have no map;
possibly we will reach haven,
heaven.

- H.D., Trilogy

Light threatens, is active, is gone,
so it is with a song.

- H.D.

That way of inspiration
is always open,
and open to everyone;
it acts as go-between, interpreter,
it explains symbols of the past
in to-day's imagery.

- H.D., Trilogy

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

- H.D.,

Man Ray, H.D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1924