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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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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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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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The artist must create himself or be born again.
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The AvowalAs swimmers dareto lie face to the skyand water bears them,as hawks rest upon airand air sustains themso would I learn to attain freefall, and floatinto Creator Spirit's deep embrace,knowing no effort earnsthat all-surrounding grace.
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Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.
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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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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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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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I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.
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The world is not with us enough. O taste and see.
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Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.
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I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.
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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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Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!
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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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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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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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The threat of world's end is the old threat.
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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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Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.
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