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Denise Levertov has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And name them…
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The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
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Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.
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One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as…
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Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn't…
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light…
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Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
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Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
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Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....
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When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying,…
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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even when it…
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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…
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I have patience in all things - as far as the antechamber.
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I believe in an individual soul which travels through eternity. This life is far from all there is--in fact, it is a…
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Days pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd…
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To evade such temptations is the first duty of the poet. For as the ear is the antechamber to the soul, poetry…
— Virginia Woolf
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There were two sets of double doors leading out of the antechamber, one marked STACKS and the other TOMES. Not knowing the…
— Patrick Rothfuss
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On reflection, one of the things I needed to learn was to allow myself to be loved. Isha McKenzie-MavingaR The societies of…
— Isha McKenzie-Mavinga
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In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is…
— Victor Hugo
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Someone will walk into your life, Leave a footprint on your heart, Turn it into a mudroom cluttered With encrusted boots, children's…
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