Denise Levertov Short Quotes

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Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August...

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The world is
not with us enough.
O taste and see.

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Marvelous Truth, confront us
at every turn,
in every guise.

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What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.

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I am not joking. I'm speaking
of spirit. Not dogma but spirit. The Way.

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Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.

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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.

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Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.

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We call it 'Nature'; only reluctantly
admitting ourselves to be 'Nature' too.

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

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If woman is inconstant,
ebb and flow, I fall
in season and now
is a time of ripening.

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

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He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.

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Each part
of speech a spark
awaiting redemption, each
a virtue, a power
in abeyance....

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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

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The last cobwebs
of fog in the
black firtrees are flakes
of white ash in the world's hearth.

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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....

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There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am...

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Love is a landscape the long mountains
define but don't
shut off from the
unseeable distance.

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The wind, the birds,
do not sound poorer but clearer,
recalling our agony, and the way we danced.

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Let Ariel learn
a blessing for Caliban
and Caliban drink dew from the lotus
open upon the waters.

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Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak
of our own doubts, while dubiously
we mother man in his doubt!

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That's joy, it's always
a recognition, the known
appearing fully itself, and
more itself than one knew.

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

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Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.

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I like to find
what's not found
at once, but lies within something of another nature,
in repose, distinct.

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And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.

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Beespittle, droppings, hairs
of beefur: all become honey.
Virulent micro-organisms cannot
survive in honey.

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In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

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I was the first to see him, for I grew
out on the pasture slope, beyond the forest.
He was a man, it seemed...

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