"If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful……" — Denise Levertov
"If woman is inconstant, good, I am faithful to ebb and flow, I fall in season and now is a time of ripening."
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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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Action and reaction, ebb and flow, trial and error, change - this is the rhythm of living. Out of our…
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Because the demands on the goalie are mostly mental, it means that for a goalie the biggest enemy is himself.…
— Ken Dryden
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And let your best be for your friend. If he must know the ebb of your tide, let him know…
— Khalil Gibran
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I trust in the ebb and flow of the universe. I trust that life's bigger than what I can see.…
— Oprah Winfrey
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I know you're always supposed to want more of everything. But in truth, I'm having a nice ebb and flow…
— Helen Hunt
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The question of how the ebb and flow of a highly developed mind can be catered to by a physical…
— Susan Greenfield, Baroness Greenfield
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The lowest ebb is the turn of the tide. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow We are such stuff as dreams are made…
— William Shakespeare
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The soul is the perceiver and revealer of truth. We know truth when we see it, let skeptic and scoffer…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Most men ebb and flow in wretchedness between the fear of death and the hardship of life; they are unwilling…
— Seneca the Younger
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When listening to the sound material, we metamorphose the inside into an outside. This notion of metamorphosis is one of…
— Bernard Parmegiani
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Drekitude is the lowest point in the lowest ebb. It could be your look. It could be your shoes. It…
— Andre Leon Talley
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All... religions show the same disparity between belief and practice, and each is safe till it tries to exclude the…
— Thomas Wentworth Higginson
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