Great saying by great authors Quote by Denise Levertov

Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them;…

— Denise Levertov

The artist must create himself or be born again.

— Denise Levertov

I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of…

— Denise Levertov

Each part of speech a spark awaiting redemption, each a virtue, a power in abeyance.

— Denise Levertov

It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something this is in process.

— 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.

— Denise Levertov

Putting his hope in certain death, lowering his head again to the grass.

— Denise Levertov

slowly the pale dew-beads of light lapped up from flowers can thicken, darken to gold: honey of the human.

— Denise Levertov

“I am, a shadow that grows longer as the sun moves, drawn out on a thread of wonder. If I bear burdens they begin…

— Denise Levertov

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep…

— Denise Levertov

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.

— Denise Levertov

There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am...

— Denise Levertov