Denise Levertov Quotes

In certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
— Denise Levertov At the Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers

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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. - Denise Levertov quote.

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.
— Denise Levertov The Poet in the World

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You can live for years next door
to a big pinetree, honored to have
so venerable a neighbor, even
when it sheds needles all over your flowers
or wakes you, dropping big cones
onto your deck at still of night. - Denise Levertov quote.

You can live for years next door
to a big pinetree, honored to have
so venerable a neighbor, even
when it sheds needles all over your flowers
or wakes you, dropping big cones
onto your deck at still of night.
— Denise Levertov Sands of the Well

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When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer. I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer. I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem. But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer. - Denise Levertov quote.

When you're really caught up in writing a poem, it can be a form of prayer.  I'm not very good at praying, but what I experience when I'm writing a poem is close to prayer.  I feel it in different degrees and not with every poem.   But in certain ways writing is a form of prayer.
— Denise Levertov At the Field’s End: Interviews with 22 Pacific Northwest Writers

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