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I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
Denise Levertov
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Denise Levertov
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 24
Died: 1997
Died: December 20
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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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Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
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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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But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
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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 threat of world's end is the old threat.
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Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.
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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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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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Two girls discover the secret of life in a sudden line of poetry.
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Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
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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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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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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.
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