Hilda Doolittle Quotes:
Ocupation: Poet
Life: September 10, 1886 - September 27, 1961
Birthday: September 10
Death: September 27
Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)
source: Hilda Doolittle, Louis L. Martz (1986). “Collected Poems 1912-1944”, p.510, New Directions Publishing
topic: Heart, Skulls, Brain, Lava, Pompeii
