Quotes by Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

Night

Numbers

Years

And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

Dream

Hair

Splits

At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

Flames

Prayer

Spring

Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.

Dropping

Hair

Honey

blue bead on the wick, there’s that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.

Blue

Heart

Thinking

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Art

Imagination

Venture

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

August

Breathe

Sweetness

Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

Knowing

Pain

White

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

Hypocrite

Men

Mother

I don’t think one can accurately measure the historical effectiveness of a poem; but one does know, of course, that books influence individuals; and individuals, although they are part of large economic and social processes, influence history. Every mass is after all made up of millions of individuals.

Book

Effectiveness

Thinking

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Admitting

Angel

Arms

Art

Attitude

August

Blue

Book

Breathe

Breathing

Butterfly

Children

Cities

Dark

Disaster

Distance

Dog

Dream

Dropping

Eagles

Echoes

Effectiveness

Enough

Eye

Feet

Fire

Flames

Flesh

Function

Girl

Growing

Growth

Guise

Hair

Happiness

Heard

Heart

Home

Honey

Horizon

Hypocrite

Imagination

Instruction

Islands

July

June

Knowing

Language

Light

Long

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Quotes by Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov

Among a hundred windows shining dully in the vast side of greater-than-palace number such-and-such one burns these several years, each night as if the room within were aflame.

And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

At Delphi I prayed to Apollo that he maintain in me the flame of the poem and I drank of the brackish spring there.

Beespittle, droppings, hairs of beefur: all become honey. Virulent micro-organisms cannot survive in honey.

blue bead on the wick, there’s that in me that burns and chills, blackening my heart with its soot, I think sometimes not Apollo heard me but a different god.

Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.

Breathe the sweetness that hovers in August.

Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

Hypocrite women, how seldom we speak of our own doubts, while dubiously we mother man in his doubt!

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