I could not accept from ...

I could not accept from wisdom
what love taught,
woman is perfect.
I could not accept from wisdom what love taught, woman is perfect.
 Hilda Doolittle

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Sylvia Plath. Interesting poetess whose tragic suicide was misinterpreted as romantic by the college-girl mentality.
I think there was the studio mentality for a long time that women and girls can relate to a male hero, but boys and men can't relate to a female hero.
 Jennifer Lawrence
Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.
 Harriet Tubman
Difficulties are meant to rouse, not discourage. The human spirit is to grow strong by conflict.
 William Ellery Channing
You must do the things you think you cannot do.

Quotes from the same author

For you are abstract, making no mistake, slurring no word in the rhythm you make, the poem, writ in the air.
 Hilda Doolittle
Every concrete object has abstract value, is timeless in the dream parallel.
 Hilda Doolittle
O happy, happy each man whom predestined fate leads to the holy rite of hill and mountain worship.
 Hilda Doolittle
I spit honey out of my mouth: nothing is second-best after the sweet of Eros.
 Hilda Doolittle
Long hours trail in their purple and long years are lost in just this moment while our souls are near, our mouths separate.
 Hilda Doolittle