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“I learn to affirm Truth's light at strange turns of the mind's road, wrong turns that lead over the border into wonder.”

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

Virtue Speech Redemption Sparks Parts Of Speech

Book:The poet in the world

Source: The poet in the world

“Do you mistake me? I am speaking of living, of moving from one moment into the next, and into the one after, breathing death in the spring air.”

Life Moments Moving Next Mistake Air Spring Breathing

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“A blind man. I can stare at him ashamed, shameless. Or does he know it? No, he is in a great solitude. O, strange joy, to gaze my fill at a stranger's face. No, my thirst is greater than before.”

Knows Men Doe I Can Faces Joy Greater Strange Solitude Blind Curiosity Stranger Staring Ashamed Thirst Blindness Shameless Blind Man

Book:Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams

Source: Denise Levertov, Kenneth Rexroth, William Carlos Williams

“Love is a landscape the long mountains define but don't shut off from the unseeable distance.”

Love Long Love Is Mountain Distance Landscape

Book:Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

Source: Poems of Denise Levertov, 1960-1967

“What we're doing with Band of Brothers is trying to put it into human terms, so it is not just a flickering, black and white myth on a screen, it is a resonant story. I want the audience to recognize themselves in these men. They're not just mythic heroes.”

Men Want Trying Humans Stories Black Term White Audience Brother Hero Band Myth Screens Black And White

Author:Tom Hanks

“Don't eat those nice green dollars your wife gives you for breakfast.”

Giving Money Nice Wife Green Dollars Breakfast

Author:Denise Levertov

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

Stories Asks Travel Islands

Author:Denise Levertov

“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?”

World Sea Shining Edges Rings Globes Hollow

Author:Denise Levertov

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

Men Mother Speak Doubt Men And Women Hypocrisy Hypocrite Doubt Me

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.”

Thinking Heart Different Sometimes Heard My Heart Blue Chill Apollo Beads Different Gods

Book:Selected poems

Source: Selected poems