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Denise Levertov Inspirational Quotes (47)

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Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
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Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
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I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
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Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.
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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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Peace as a positive condition of society, not merely as an interim between wars, is something so unknown that it casts no images on the mind's screen.
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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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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
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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.
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A poet articulating the dreads and horrors of our time is necessary in order to make readers understand what is happening, really understand it, not just know about it but feel it: and should be accompanied by a willingness on the part of those who write it to take additional action towards stopping the great miseries which they record.
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What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?
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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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But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it sheds needles all over your flowers or wakes you, dropping big cones onto your deck at still of night.
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Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.
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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
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Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.
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The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
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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.
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Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
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I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.
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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.
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Images split the truth in fractions.
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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination both are ventures into the unknown.
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