Denise Levertov (October 24, 1923 – December 20, 1997) was a British-born American poet.
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Famous quotes by denise levertov:
“Live
in thy fingertips and in thy
hair’s rising; hunger
be thine, food
be thine and what wine
will not shrivel thee.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“wander swerving
to wonder”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“not that horror was not, not that the killings did not continue,
not that I thought there was to be no more despair,
but that as if transparent all disclosed
an otherness that was blessèd, that was bliss.
I saw Paradise in the dust of the street.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“For this, then,
that slanting
line was left, that crack, the pane
never replaced.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“the plump of my belly, the
hollow of your
groin, as a constellation,
how it leans from earth to
dawn in a gesture of
play....”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)