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I'll dig in into my days, having come here to live, not to visit. Grey is the price of neighboring with eagles, of knowing a mountain's vast presence, seen or unseen.
Denise Levertov
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Denise Levertov
Age: 74 †
Born: 1923
Born: October 24
Died: 1997
Died: December 20
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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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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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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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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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The threat of world's end is the old threat.
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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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Both art and faith are dependent on imagination both are ventures into the unknown.
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The artist must create himself or be born again.
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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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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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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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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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Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.
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