Top 25 Quotes by Denise Levertov of 83 - Page 4

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.

Cities, Growth, Arms

Denise Levertov, Jewel Spears Brooker (1998). “Conversations with Denise Levertov”, p.128, Univ. Press of Mississippi

Yes, he is here in this open field, in sunlight, among the few young trees set out to modify the bare facts-- he's here, but only because we are here. When we go, he goes with us to be your hands that never do violence, your eyes that wonder, your lives that daily praise life by living it, by laughter. He is never alone here, never cold in the field of graves.

Denise Levertov

Laughter, Eye, Hands

Denise Levertov (1987). “Poems 1968-1972”, p.11, New Directions Publishing

our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

Denise Levertov

War, Night, Nerves

Denise Levertov, Peggy Rosenthal (2006). “Making Peace”, p.4, New Directions Publishing

The threat of world's end is the old threat.

Denise Levertov

World, Ends, Threat

Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.

Denise Levertov

Pain, White, Knowing

1972 Footprints,'The Malice of Innocence'.