Denise Levertov Quotes - Page 4

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• Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water
  lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer
  upon them; let a boat be kept there.

  Denise Levertov

  Dark, Space, Water

  Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions

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• Don't eat
  those nice green dollars your wife
  gives you for breakfast.

  Denise Levertov

  Money, Nice, Giving

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• Mountain, mountain, mountain,
  marking time. Each
  nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering
  redefinition of
  horizon.

  Denise Levertov

  Wall, Mountain, Horizon

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• The threat
  of world's end is the old threat.

  Denise Levertov

  World, Ends, Threat

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• A blind man. I can stare at him
  ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
  No, he is in a great solitude.
  O, strange joy,
  to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
  No, my thirst is greater than before.

  Denise Levertov

  Men, Joy, Solitude

  Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”

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

  Denise Levertov

  Butterfly, Touching, Paper

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.143, New Directions Publishing

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• In June the bush we call
  alder was heavy, listless,
  its leaves studded with galls,
  growing wherever we didn't
  want it.

  Denise Levertov

  June, Growing, Want

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.97, New Directions Publishing

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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.

  Denise Levertov

  Cities, Growth, Arms

  Denise Levertov, Jewel Spears Brooker (1998). “Conversations with Denise Levertov”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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