Denise Levertov Quotes

he walks with me to the gate of Home and leaves me. I enter. Mother is gone, only Things remain. So be it.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Film." (1) (0)
Old Day the gardener seemed Death himself, or Time, scythe in hand by the sundial and freshly-dug grave in my book of parables.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "A Figure of Time." (1) (0)
Stir of time, the sequence returning upon itself, branching a new way. To suffer, pains, hope. The attention lives in it as a poem lives or a song going under the skin of memory.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Kingdoms of Heaven." (1) (0)
Turtle Goddess she of the hard shell soft underneath awaits enormously in a dark grotto the young Heroes....
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Film." (0) (1)
In the autumn brilliance feathers tingle at fingertips.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Air of November." (0) (1)
He says the waves in the ship's wake are like stones rolling away. I don't see it that way.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Leaving Forever." (1) (0)
Don't say, don't say there is no water to solace the dryness at our hearts. I have seen the fountain springing out of the rock wall and you drinking there.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Fountain." (0) (0)
a flying open of doors, convergence of magic objects into feathered hands and crested heads, a prospect of winter verve, a buildup to abundance.
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Air of November." (0) (0)
the gray filth of it: the knowledge that humankind, delicate Man, whose flesh responds to a caress, whose eyes are flowers that perceive the stars ...
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Life at War." (0) (0)
Don't say, don't say there is no water. That fountain is there among its scalloped green and gray stones, it is still there and always there....
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Fountain." (0) (0)