Denise Levertov - Poetry Quotes

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

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

I long for poems of an inner harmony in utter contrast to the chaos in which they exist. Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.

Denise Levertov