"Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination……" — Denise Levertov

"Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it."

— Denise Levertov

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52 Quotes by Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov has 52 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Very few people really see things unless they've had someone in early life who made them look at things. And…
The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal…
Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because…
Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears…
Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.
Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.
Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies....
When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good…
You can live for years next door to a big pine tree, honored to have so venerable a neighbor, even…
Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.
In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.

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More Affliction Quotes

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The pencil of the Holy Ghost hath labored more in describing the afflictions of Job than the felicities of Solomon. — Francis Bacon
The true believer is rewarded in every thing, even in affliction. — Abu Bakr
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested… — James A. Baldwin
As threshing separates the wheat from the chaff, so does affliction purify virtue. — Christian Nestell Bovee
Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! — Robert Burns
God's way of answering the Christian's prayer for more patience, experience, hope and love often is to put him into… — Richard Cecil
No man is more unhappy than the one who is never in adversity; the greatest affliction of life is never… — Victor Hugo
What I point out to you is only that you shouldn't allow yourselves to be confused by others. Act when… — Unknown Author
A characteristic of those who are still progressing in blessed mourning is temperance and silence of the lips; and of… — John Climacus
Quiet and sincere sympathy is often the most welcome and efficient consolation to the afflicted. Said a wise man to… — Tryon Edwards
In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God. — John Bunyan
When old companions, old lusts, and sins crowd in upon you, and when you feel that you are ready to… — Robert Murray M'Cheyne

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