Asphodel Quotes

“I mean seeing the Elgin marbles this morning gave me the same feeling and I didn’t know, don’t know whether I’m in Rome or Paris. I mean the Louvre and the British Museum hold one together, keep one from going to bits.”
― H.D., Asphodel

“When I make you cry out for God, does that count as praying?”
― H.D. Carlton, Asphodel

“What is self? Self is a lotus bud slimed over in mud.”
― H.D., Asphodel

“You can take a field and spread it like a rug across the floor and you can step on the field, stepping out of your bed. You can stand on the field and you can watch the mark your foot makes, you can see your foot ringed with blue thyme, or with cyclamen, or with gold pulse. This is imagination. Imagination is stronger than reality.”
― H.D., Asphodel

“I mean how can anything one has suggested in Havre or Rouen, have anything to do with anything else of moment in Paris?”
― H.D., Asphodel

“The sun shines alike, the rain falls alike, the wings of Samothracian Nike spread alike over the just and the unjust, the seeing and the not-seeing and the almost seeing and the just not seeing.”
― H.D., Asphodel