Denise Levertov Quotes - Page 4

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• A blind man. I can stare at him
  ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it?
  No, he is in a great solitude.
  O, strange joy,
  to gaze my fill at a stranger's face.
  No, my thirst is greater than before.

  Denise Levertov

  Men, Joy, Solitude

  Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams (1967). “Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams”

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• Don't eat
  those nice green dollars your wife
  gives you for breakfast.

  Denise Levertov

  Money, Nice, Giving

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• Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

  Denise Levertov

  Pain, White, Knowing

  1972 Footprints,'The Malice of Innocence'.

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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.

  Denise Levertov

  Heart, Thinking, Blue

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.41, New Directions Publishing

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• And our dreams,
  with what frivolity we have pared them
  like toenails, clipped them like ends of
  split hair.

  Denise Levertov

  Dream, Hair, Splits

  Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.42, New Directions Publishing

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• Mountain, mountain, mountain,
  marking time. Each
  nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering
  redefinition of
  horizon.

  Denise Levertov

  Wall, Mountain, Horizon

  Denise Levertov (1983). “Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967”, p.128, New Directions Publishing

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• The threat
  of world's end is the old threat.

  Denise Levertov

  World, Ends, Threat

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• Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves.

  Denise Levertov

  Laughter, Eye, Hands

  Denise Levertov (1987). “Poems 1968-1972”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

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