"Let me walk through the fields of paper……" — Denise Levertov
"Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies...."
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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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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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More Butterflies Quotes
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one of 366 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
— Drew Barrymore
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Butterflies are always following me, everywhere I go.
— Mariah Carey
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I love that feeling of being in love, the effect of having butterflies when you wake up in the morning.…
— Jennifer Aniston
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It's OK to have butterflies. Just get them flying in formation.
— Unknown Author
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Every time you go out there, you want to be a little nervous, have a little bit of butterflies in…
— Unknown Author
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I shall state silences more competently than ever a better man spangled the butterflies of vertigo.
— Samuel Beckett
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Running is in my blood-the adrenaline flows before the races, the love/hate of butterflies in your stomach.
— Unknown Author
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Butterflies are very interesting. Here these things are little grubs for a while. And then they go into a little…
— Roger Tory Peterson
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God changes caterpillars into butterflies, sand into pearls and coal into diamonds using time and pressure. He's working on you,…
— Rick Warren
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We lose our souls if we lose the experience of the forest, the butterflies, the song of the birds, if…
— Thomas Berry
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I've always loved butterflies, because they remind us that it's never too late to transform ourselves.
— Drew Barrymore
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How passionately we love everything that cannot last: the dazzling crystallory of winter, the spring in bloom, the fragile flight…
— Dean Koontz
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