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The threat of world's end is the old threat.
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
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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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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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Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.
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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
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Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.
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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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Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.
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The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
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The artist must create himself or be born again.
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