Denise Levertov - Life Quotes

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Life after life after life goes by
without poetry,
without seemliness,
without love.

Denise Levertov
Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts— he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves.

Denise Levertov
Two girls discover
the secret of life
in a sudden line of
poetry. I who don't know the
secret wrote
the line.

Denise Levertov
By dawn he was gone.
We have stood here since,
in our new life.
We have waited.
He does not return.

Denise Levertov
I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

Denise Levertov
The vast silence of Buddha overtakes
and overrules the oncoming roar
of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues;
it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.

Denise Levertov
It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

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