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Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.
Denise Levertov
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Denise Levertov
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 24
Died: 1997
Died: December 20
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Ilford
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At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.
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In the dark I rest, unready for the light which dawns day after day, eager to be shared. Black silk, shelter me. I need more of the night before I open eyes and heart to illumination. I must still grow in the dark like a root not ready, not ready at all.
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The threat of world's end is the old threat.
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my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.
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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
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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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An absolute patience. Trees stand up to their knees in fog. The fog slowly flows uphill. White cobwebs, the grass leaning where deer have looked for apples. The woods from brook to where the top of the hill looks over the fog, send up not one bird. So absolute, it is no other than happiness itself, a breathing too quiet to hear.
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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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And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.
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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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But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
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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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The artist must create himself or be born again.
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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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One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.
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blue bead on the wick, there's that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.
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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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