Hilda Doolittle — a remark

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“To shun, deny and belittle such experiences is to bury one's talent carefully in a napkin.”

Warning that denial of lived experience can suppress creative potential · Essay, Notes on Thought and Vision

About Hilda Doolittle

Hilda Doolittle

10 September 1886–27 September 1961

Hilda Doolittle, who published almost all her work as H.D., was born on 10 September 1886 in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and died on 27 September 1961 in Zürich, Switzerland. Few modern writers have so thoroughly transformed apparent limitation into artistic amplitude. The initials by which she became famous could seem…

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