"Every day, every day I hear enough to……" — Denise Levertov
"Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering."
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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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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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In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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