Denise Levertov Quotes
Collection of top 53 famous quotes about Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov Quotes & Sayings
Happy to read and share the best inspirational Denise Levertov quotes, sayings and quotations on Wise Famous Quotes.
We are so manyand many within themselves
travel to far islands but no one
asks for their story ... — Denise Levertov
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
Hypocrite women, how seldom we speakof our own doubts, while dubiously
we mother man in his doubt! — Denise Levertov
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
Don't eatthose nice green dollars your wife
gives you for breakfast. — Denise Levertov
The last cobwebsof fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth. — Denise Levertov
I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.
— Denise Levertov
There comes a time when only anger is love.
— Denise Levertov
Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies ...
— Denise Levertov
Each partof speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance ... — Denise Levertov
We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.
— Denise Levertov
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
Love is a landscape the long mountainsdefine but don't
shut off from the
unseeable distance. — Denise Levertov
I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
— Denise Levertov
There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am ...
— Denise Levertov
The world is not with us enough.
— Denise Levertov
The threatof world's end is the old threat. — Denise Levertov
The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
— Denise Levertov
Through the hollow globe, a ringof frayed rusty scrapiron,
is it the sea that shines?
Is it a road at the world's edge? — Denise Levertov
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
I learn to affirmTruth's light at strange turns of the mind's road,
wrong turns that lead
over the border into wonder ... — Denise Levertov
Nd as you readthe sea is turning its dark pages,
turning
its dark pages. — Denise Levertov
And our dreams,with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair. — Denise Levertov
Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry. — Denise Levertov
You have come to the shore. There are no instructions.
— Denise Levertov
In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless,
its leaves studded with galls,
growing wherever we didn't
want it. — Denise Levertov
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
— Denise Levertov
Praise the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow. — Denise Levertov
Grey is the priceof neighboring with eagles, of knowing
a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen. — Denise Levertov
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
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
— Denise Levertov
Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...
— Denise Levertov
We have the words in our pockets,obscure directions. The old ones
have taken away the light of their presence ... — Denise Levertov
Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.
— Denise Levertov
Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
— Denise Levertov
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
Beespittle, droppings, hairsof beefur: all become honey.
Virulent micro-organisms cannot
survive in honey. — Denise Levertov
Images split the truth
in fractions. — Denise Levertov
My pleasurewas in the strength of my back,
in my noble shoulders, the cool
smooth flesh cylinders of my arms. — Denise Levertov
The artist must create himself or be born again.
— Denise Levertov
But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
— Denise Levertov
Slowly the paledew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human. — Denise Levertov
At Delphi I prayedto Apollo
that he maintain in me
the flame of the poem
and I drank of the brackish
spring there ... — Denise Levertov
In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
— Denise Levertov
What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.
— Denise Levertov