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Denise Levertov quotes: We are so manyand many within themselvestravel to far islands but no oneasks for their story ... We are so many
and many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story ...
Denise Levertov quotes: But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud. But we have only begun to love the earth. We have only begun to imagine the fullness of life. How could we tire of hope?-so much is in bud.
Denise Levertov quotes: Hypocrite women, how seldom we speakof our own doubts, while dubiouslywe mother man in his doubt! Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
of our own doubts, while dubiously
we mother man in his doubt!
Denise Levertov quotes: Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it. Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
Denise Levertov quotes: The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer. The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
Denise Levertov quotes: When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word. When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.
Denise Levertov quotes: Don't eatthose nice green dollars your wifegives you for breakfast. Don't eat
those nice green dollars your wife
gives you for breakfast.
Denise Levertov quotes: The last cobwebsof fog in theblack firtrees are flakesof white ash in the world's hearth. The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.
Denise Levertov quotes: I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
Denise Levertov quotes: There comes a time when only anger is love. There comes a time when only anger is love.
Denise Levertov quotes: Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies ... Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies ...
Denise Levertov quotes: Each partof speech a sparkawaiting redemption, eacha virtue, a powerin abeyance ... Each part
of speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ...
Denise Levertov quotes: Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering. Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
Denise Levertov quotes: We must breathe time as fishes breathe water. We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.
Denise Levertov quotes: In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down. In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
Denise Levertov quotes: So absolute, it isno other thanhappiness itself, a breathingtoo quiet to hear. So absolute, it is
no other than
happiness itself, a breathing
too quiet to hear.
Denise Levertov quotes: Love is a landscape the long mountainsdefine but don'tshut off from theunseeable distance. Love is a landscape the long mountains
define but don't
shut off from the
unseeable distance.
Denise Levertov quotes: I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct. I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
Denise Levertov quotes: There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am ... There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am ...
Denise Levertov quotes: The world is not with us enough. The world is not with us enough.
Denise Levertov quotes: Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it. Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
Denise Levertov quotes: The threatof world's end is the old threat. The threat
of world's end is the old threat.
Denise Levertov quotes: The world is not with us enough. O taste and see. The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
Denise Levertov quotes: Through the hollow globe, a ringof frayed rusty scrapiron,is it the sea that shines?Is it a road at the world's edge? Through the hollow globe, a ring
of frayed rusty scrapiron,
is it the sea that shines?
Is it a road at the world's edge?
Denise Levertov quotes: Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon. Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
Denise Levertov quotes: I learn to affirmTruth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,wrong turns that leadover the border into wonder ... I learn to affirm
Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder ...
Denise Levertov quotes: I watch the clouds as I see themin pomp advancing, pursuingthe fallen sun. I watch the clouds as I see them
in pomp advancing, pursuing
the fallen sun.
Denise Levertov quotes: Nd as you readthe sea is turning its dark pages,turningits dark pages. Nd as you read
the sea is turning its dark pages,
turning
its dark pages.
Denise Levertov quotes: And our dreams,with what frivolity we have pared themlike toenails, clipped them like ends ofsplit hair. And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.
Denise Levertov quotes: We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too. We call it "Nature"; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be "Nature" too.
Denise Levertov quotes: Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry. Two girls discover the secret of life
in a sudden line of poetry.
Denise Levertov quotes: You have come to the shore. There are no instructions. You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
Denise Levertov quotes: In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it. In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it.
Denise Levertov quotes: Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise. Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Denise Levertov quotes: Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow. Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
Denise Levertov quotes: It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process. It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.
Denise Levertov quotes: Grey is the priceof neighboring with eagles, of knowinga mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen. Grey is the price
of neighboring with eagles, of knowing
a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
Denise Levertov quotes: If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening. If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
Denise Levertov quotes: Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have. Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
Denise Levertov quotes: Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ... Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...
Denise Levertov quotes: We have the words in our pockets,obscure directions. The old oneshave taken away the light of their presence ... We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ...
Denise Levertov quotes: Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown. Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
Denise Levertov quotes: Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock. Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
Denise Levertov quotes: Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen. Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.
Denise Levertov quotes: Beespittle, droppings, hairsof beefur: all become honey.Virulent micro-organisms cannotsurvive in honey. Beespittle, droppings, hairs
of beefur: all become honey.
Virulent micro-organisms cannot
survive in honey.
Denise Levertov quotes: Images split the truth in fractions. Images
split the truth
in fractions.
Denise Levertov quotes: My pleasurewas in the strength of my back,in my noble shoulders, the coolsmooth flesh cylinders of my arms. My pleasure
was in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
Denise Levertov quotes: The artist must create himself or be born again. The artist must create himself or be born again.
Denise Levertov quotes: But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go. But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
Denise Levertov quotes: Slowly the paledew-beads of lightlapped up from flowerscan thicken,darken to gold:honey of the human. Slowly the pale
dew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human.
Denise Levertov quotes: At Delphi I prayedto Apollothat he maintain in methe flame of the poemand I drank of the brackishspring there ... At Delphi I prayed
to Apollo
that he maintain in me
the flame of the poem
and I drank of the brackish
spring there ...
Denise Levertov quotes: In certain ways writing is a form of prayer. In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
Denise Levertov quotes: What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can. What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

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