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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
Denise Levertov
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Denise Levertov
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 24
Died: 1997
Died: December 20
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Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't have jobs, otherwise. But it's phony, you know.
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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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Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.
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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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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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Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.
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The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
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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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I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.
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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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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.
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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination both are ventures into the unknown.
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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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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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The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.
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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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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
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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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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
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