Denise Levertov Quotes - Page 4

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

  Denise Levertov

  Dream, Hair, Splits

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

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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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• our nerve filaments twitch with its presence
  day and night,
  nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying,
  nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness,
  the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

  Denise Levertov

  War, Night, Nerves

  Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

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

  Denise Levertov

  Fog, White, Black

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