“But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.”
Source: Selected poems
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Famous Denise Levertov Quotes
Source: The Stream & the Sapphire: Selected Poems on Religious Themes
Source: Oblique Prayers: Poetry
Source: Collected Earlier Poems, 1940-1960
Source: New & Selected Essays
“Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.”
Source: New & Selected Essays
“The fire in leaf and grass so green it seems each summer the last summer.”
Source: Selected poems
Source: The poet in the world
Source: Conversations with Denise Levertov
“Every day, every day I hear enough to fill a year of nights with wondering.”
Source: Breathing the Water
“Marvelous Truth, confront us at every turn, in every guise.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“Let me walk through the fields of paper touching with my wand dry stems and stunted butterflies.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
Source: Selected poems
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
Source: Sands of the Well
“Nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.”
Source: Making Peace
“Both art and faith are dependent on imagination; both are ventures into the unknown.”
“I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.”
Source: Selected poems
“The artist must create himself or be born again.”
Source: Light Up the Cave
“Grief is a hole you walk around in the daytime and at night you fall into it.”
Source: Sands of the Well
Source: Conversations with Denise Levertov
Source: New & Selected Essays
“What I heard was my whole self saying and singing what it knew: I can.”
Source: Breathing the Water
“It is fatal to one's artistic life to talk about something that is in process.”
Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967
“There is no savor more sweet, more salt than to be glad to be what, woman, and who, myself, I am.”
Source: The Sorrow Dance: Poems
Source: Selected poems
“Insofar as poetry has a social function it is to awaken sleepers by other means than shock.”
Source: The poet in the world