Denise Levertov Quotes About Prayer

Quotes about: Prayer

• I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.

  Denise Levertov

  Prayer, Writing, Praying

• In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

  Denise Levertov

  Prayer, Healing, Writing

• When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

  Denise Levertov

  Prayer, Writing, Degrees

• At Delphi I prayed
  to Apollo
  that he maintain in me
  the flame of the poem
  and I drank of the brackish
  spring there.

  Denise Levertov

  Prayer, Spring, Flames

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.140, New Directions Publishing

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