113 Quotes by Denise Levertov

We call it “Nature”; only reluctantly admitting ourselves to be “Nature” too.

Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn’t have jobs, otherwise. But it’s phony, you know.

The world is not with us enough.

When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.

It is fatal to one’s artistic life to talk about something this is in process.