Article: The muse's dance: H.D.'s 'The Dancer' as spiritual metaphor. (poem by Hilda Doolittle)

My own spiritual quest began when I left the Catholic Church disgruntled and disillusioned by the silencing of my voice as a woman. The pain I felt without a spiritual center in my life, however, was every bit as acute as that I experienced when participating in a system which devalued if not ignored my very presence. Unable to achieve a sense of personal fulfillment, my creative energy waned with my sense of purpose. I realized that my spirituality is that part of me that nurtures and feeds my creative self. Resurrection of my voice as a writer, then, depended upon a revival of that spirituality but within a new context.

I began the search for a new spiritual ...

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