Helen in Egypt Quotes

“I had met him, the New Mortal,
baffled and lost,
but I was a phantom Helen
and he was Achilles' ghost.”
― H.D., Helen in Egypt

“Was it Apollo's snare
so that poets forever
should be caught in the maze of the walls
of a Troy that never fell?”
― H.D., Helen in Egypt

“Troy had never been
till I came here”
― H.D., Helen in Egypt

“the admitted first-cause 'of all-time, of all-history”
― H.D., Helen in Egypt