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“We are so many and many within themselves travel to far islands but no one asks for their story.”

Quote by Denise Levertov

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Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov was an American poet known for her profound personal expression and commitment to social justice. Her poetry blended personal emotion with deep insight into the world, characterized by its unique style and emotional richness. more

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“Through the hollow globe, a ring of frayed rusty scrapiron, is it the sea that shines? Is it a road at the world's edge?”

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

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Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“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.”

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

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“my pleasure was in the strength of my back, in my noble shoulders, the cool smooth flesh cylinders of my arms.”

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Source: The Sorrow Dance: Poems

“What joy when the insouciant armadillo glances at us and doesn't quicken his trotting across the track into the palm brush. What is this joy? That no animal falters, but knows what it must do?”

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“The vast silence of Buddha overtakes and overrules the oncoming roar of tragic life that fills alleys and avenues; it blocks the way of pedicabs, police, convoys.”

Way Silence Police Block Temples Tragic Vietnam Avenues Alleys Tragic Life

Book:Making Peace

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“Mountain, mountain, mountain, marking time. Each nameless, wall beyond wall, wavering redefinition of horizon.”

Wall Mountain Horizon Nameless Wavering Marking Time

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“When I was 21 years old, I had a job playing Santa Claus in a shopping centre in Sacramento. I was rail thin, so it's not like I was a traditional Santa Claus even then. I had a square stomach; that was the shape of the sofa cushion that I had stuffed into my pants.”

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“I watch the clouds as I see them in pomp advancing, pursuing the fallen sun.”

Watches Sun Clouds Fallen Advancing

Author:Denise Levertov