Famous Quotes | You would have broken my...

You would have broken my wings,
but the very fact that you knew
I had wings, set some seal
on my bitter heart, my heart
broke and fluttered and sang. - Hilda Doolittle
Attribution: Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961), U.S. poet. “Toward the Piraeus.”

Categories: Heartbreak

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