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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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I can be in a relationship if I want to but not now. I'm not ready.
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