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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.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/denise-levertov/let-the-space-under-the-first-storey-be-dark-let-the-water-lap-the/)

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

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## 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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