113 Quotes by Denise Levertov

In the dark I rest,unready for the light which dawnsday after day,eager to be shared.Black silk, shelter me.I needmore of the night before I openeyes and heartto illumination. I must stillgrow in the dark like a rootnot ready, not ready at all.

There's in my mind a...turbulent moon-ridden girlor old woman, or both,dressed in opals and rags, feathersand torn taffeta,who knows strange songsbut she is not kind.

Two girls discover the secret of lifein a sudden line of poetry.

But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.

Yes, he is here in thisopen field, in sunlight, amongthe few young trees set outto modify the bare facts--he's here, but onlybecause we are here.When we go, he goes with usto be your hands that neverdo violence, your eyesthat wonder, your livesthat daily praise lifeby living it, by laughter.He is never alone here,never cold in the field of graves.

The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.

The world isnot with us enoughO taste and seethe subway Bible poster said,meaning The Lord, meaningif anything all that livesto the imagination’s tongue,grief, mercy, language,tangerine, weather, tobreathe them, bite,savor, chew, swallow, transforminto our flesh ourdeaths, crossing the street, plum, quince,living in the orchard and beinghungry, and pluckingthe fruit.

বিবাহের অবিরাম বেদনাবিবাহের অবিরাম বেদনা:উরু আর জিভ, হে প্রিয়,এর সঙ্গে বেশ ভারি,তা দাঁতে স্পন্দিত হয়আমরা আংশিদারীর চেষ্টা করিকিন্তু ফিরিয়ে দেয়া হয়, হে প্রিয়,প্রত্যেকে আর প্রত্যেকেএটা হল প্রকাণ্ড হাঙর আর আমরাতার পেটের ভেতরেআনন্দ খুঁজি, কোনও আনন্দযা এর বাইরে জানা যাবে নাদুই বনাম দুই এর সিন্দুকেরমধ্যে এর অবিরাম বেদনা ।

I moonbathed diligently, as others sunbathe.