"What I heard was my whole self saying……" — Denise Levertov
"What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can."
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Denise Levertov
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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 Heard Quotes
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In 1994, when I went back to Haiti from exile, we established a Commission for Truth and Justice and Reconciliation.…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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That money talks, I'll not deny, I heard it once: It said, 'Goodbye'.
— Richard Armour
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All music is folk music. I ain't never heard a horse sing a song.
— Louis Armstrong
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I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,…
— Sean Astin
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A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.
— Jane Austen
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Have you ever heard of a good marriage growing in front of the cameras?
— Brigitte Bardot
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Nobody wanted the 'Roseanne' show. I heard from agents that there was no interest in a show about a fat…
— Roseanne Barr
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Cartoonist was the weirdest name I finally let myself have. I would never say it. When I heard it I…
— Lynda Barry
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I have no TV, thank God. I haven't heard anything about Tom Cruise, except that he had a baby, I…
— Emmanuelle Beart
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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I have not heard people in the Republican Party yet admit that they have a problem. And when they do…
— Glenn Beck
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Leaders must encourage their organizations to dance to forms of music yet to be heard.
— Warren G. Bennis
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