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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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Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
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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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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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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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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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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
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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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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
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