Love, why have you sought the ...

Love, why have you sought the horde
of spearsmen, why the tent
Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
Love, why have you sought the horde of spearsmen, why the tent Achilles pitched beside the river-ford?
 Hilda Doolittle

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Courage - a perfect sensibility of the measure of danger, and a mental willingness to endure it.
 William Tecumseh Sherman
Feeling, in the broad sense of whatever is felt in any way, as sensory stimulus or inward tension, pain, emotion or intent, is the mark of mentality.
 Susanne Katherina Langer
In that period, we had the Cold War mentality imbued through us - the Post-war [environment] and the Cold War. I think we were reflecting some of that. This was before the Wall collapsed, etc.
 Stephen Mallinder
The kind of group mentality that we had lived under since the Second World War is starting to erupt, and the craving for individualism is now much stronger. It's not as taboo anymore, as it was when I was younger.
 Nicolas Winding Refn
I come out of a Cold War sensibility, a Cold War mentality, and during those Cold War years, I used to know, I thought, the answers to everything. And since the end of the Cold War, I'm just a dumb as everyone else.
 Jules Feiffer

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