"A sense of the present rises out of……" — Denise Levertov
"A sense of the present rises out of earth and grass, enters the feet, ascends into the genitals, constricting the breast...."
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52 Quotes by Denise Levertov
Denise Levertov has 52 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because…
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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…
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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…
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You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even…
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Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
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More Ascends Quotes
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Man is made or unmade by himself. By the right choice he ascends. As a being of power, intelligence, and…
— James Allen
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No erudition, no purity of diction, no width of mental outlook, no flowers of eloquence, no grace of person can…
— Edward McKendree Bounds
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When there is no thought. no desire, no ambition, in that state of no-mind truth descends in you - or…
— Rajneesh
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May your heart be an altar, from which the bright flame of unending thanksgiving ascends to heaven.
— Mary Euphrasia Pelletier
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The Church was redeemed at the price of Christ's blood. Jew or Greek, it makes no difference; but if he…
— Ambrose
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The superior man has nothing to compete for. But if he must compete, he does it in an archery match,…
— Confucius
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Praise lies upon a higher plain than thanksgiving. When I give thanks, my thoughts still circle around myself to some…
— Ole Hallesby
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In creating a work of art, the psyche or soul of the artist ascends from the earthly realm into the…
— Pavel Florensky
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Politics moves upward into ethics, and ethics ascends to theology.
— Russell Kirk
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Away with tears and fears and troubles! United in wedlock with the eternal Godhead Itself, our nature ascends into the…
— C.S. Lewis
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If our Lord ascends up to Heaven, ascend with Him. Be one of those angels who escort Him, or one…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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The world is nothing, the man is all; in yourself is the law of all nature, and you know not…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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