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Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
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
London
Priscilla D Levertoff
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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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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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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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Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.
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slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.
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Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.
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In June the bush we call alder was heavy, listless, its leaves studded with galls, growing wherever we didn't want it.
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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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And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.
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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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The threat of world's end is the old threat.
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There's in my mind a... turbulent moon-ridden girl or old woman, or both, dressed in opals and rags, feathers and torn taffeta, who knows strange songs but she is not kind.
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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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Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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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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But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.
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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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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination both are ventures into the unknown.
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