Levertov

Famous quotes containing the word levertov:

    some primal-shaped, plain-winged, day-flying thing.
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    ... innocently
    more expressive than faces:
    nipples, navel, and pubic hair
    make anyway a
    sort of face....
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

    by noon
    the whole city in all its corruption,
    all its shed blood the monsoon cannot wash away,
    has become a temple,
    fragile, insolent, absolute.
    —Denise Levertov (b. 1923)