Denise Levertov Quotes
Top 53 wise famous quotes and sayings by Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.
In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am ...
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?
of frayed rusty scrapiron,
is it the sea that shines?
Is it a road at the world's edge?
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.
I learn to affirm
Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder ...
Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder ...
And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.
In June the bush we call
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it.
alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it.
Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.
If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.
We have the words in our pockets,
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ...
obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ...
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.
Beespittle, droppings, hairs
of beefur: all become honey.
Virulent micro-organisms cannot
survive in honey.
of beefur: all become honey.
Virulent micro-organisms cannot
survive in honey.
My pleasure
was in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
was in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
Slowly the pale
dew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human.
dew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human.