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The artist must create himself or be born again.
Denise Levertov
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Denise Levertov
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 24
Died: 1997
Died: December 20
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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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But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
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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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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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I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.
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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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Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.
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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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Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.
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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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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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The threat of world's end is the old threat.
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Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
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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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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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Images split the truth in fractions.
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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.
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Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.
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Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.
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The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
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