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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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Now, if you notice how the swan, putting its neck down into the deep water, brings up food for itself from below,…
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A grieving person's like a person treading in deep water--if they've nothing to hold on to, they lose hope. They slide right…
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I always challenge myself. I get out in deep water and I always try to get back. But I get hung up.…
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...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep…
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Extreme deep water drilling is not the preferred choice to meet our country's energy needs, but your protests and lawsuits and lies…
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A great ship asks deep water.
— George Herbert
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When you're testing to see how deep water is, never use two feet.
— Benjamin Franklin
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The heart of a man is like deep water
— Douglas Coupland
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And I will look down and see my murmuring bones and the deep water like wind, like a roof of wind, and…
— William Faulkner
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For a few minutes, maybe, life lingers in the tissues of some outlying regions of the body. Then, one by one, the…
— Christopher Isherwood
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I was the place where you anchored. I was the deep water where you could be weightless. I was the surface where…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I thought I was growing wings— it was a cocoon. I thought, now is the time to step into the fire— it…
— Denise Levertov
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