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> [I see him across the street, the blind man, and now he says he can find his way. He knows where he is going, it is nowhere, it is filled with presences. He says, I am.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/i-see-him-across-the-street-the-blind-man-and-now-he-says-he-can-find/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/a-blind-man-i-can-stare-at-him-ashamed-shameless-or-does-he-know-it/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

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## Other authors on Blind man

## More by Denise Levertov

> [Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/death-and-pain-dominate-this-world-for-though-many-are-cured-they/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [The artist must create himself or be born again.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/the-artist-must-create-himself-or-be-born-again/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/i-believe-every-space-and-comma-is-a-living-part-of-the-poem-and-has/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/each-part-of-speech-a-spark-awaiting-redemption-each-a-virtue-a-power/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/it-is-fatal-to-one-s-artistic-life-to-talk-about-something-this-is-in/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/if-woman-is-inconstant-good-i-am-faithful-to-ebb-and-flow-i-fall-in/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [Putting his hope in certain death, lowering his head again to the grass.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/putting-his-hope-in-certain-death-lowering-his-head-again-to-the-grass/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/slowly-the-pale-dew-beads-of-light-lapped-up-from-flowers-can-thicken/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [“I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens they begin…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/i-am-a-shadow-that-grows-longer-as-the-sun-moves-drawn-out-on-a/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/in-city-in-suburb-in-forest-no-way-to-stretch-out-the-arms-so-if-you/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/i-like-to-find-what-s-not-found-at-once-but-lies-within-something-of/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am...](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/there-is-no-savor-more-sweet-more-salt-than-to-be-glad-to-be-what/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [This wild night, gathering the washing as if it were flowers animal vines twisting over theline and slapping my face lightly, soundless merriment in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/this-wild-night-gathering-the-washing-as-if-it-were-flowers-animal/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/the-fire-in-leaf-and-grass-so-green-it-seems-each-summer-the-last/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

> [I see him across the street, the blind man, and now he says he can find his way. He knows where he is going,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/i-see-him-across-the-street-the-blind-man-and-now-he-says-he-can-find/)

[Denise Levertov](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/denise-levertov/)

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