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Denise Levertov
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“... the artist must / create himself or be born again.”
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“... that's joy, it's always / a recognition, the known / appearing fully itself, and / more itself than one knew.”
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“Marvelous Truth, confront us / at every turn, / in every guise ...”
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“... breathe the sweetness that hovers in August ...”
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“two by two in the ark of / the ache of it.”
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“Life after life after life goes by / without poetry, / without seemliness, / without love.”
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“To speak of sorrow / works upon it / moves it from its / crouched place barring / the way to and from the soul's hall ...”
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“One of the obligations of the writer, and perhaps especially of the poet, is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.”
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“Mediocrity is perhaps due not so much to lack of imagination as to lack of faith in the imagination, lack of the capacity for this abandon.”
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“We must breathe time as fishes breathe water.”
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“We call it 'Nature'; only reluctantly / admitting ourselves to be 'Nature' too.”
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“Affliction is more apt to suffocate the imagination than to stimulate it.”
Denise Levertov, English-born U.S. poet, writer
(1923 - 1997)