#Levertov

[mournfulroses]

Denise Levertov, from O Taste and See: New Poems; "The Old Adam,"

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[strykerlancer]

Darkly, solemnly, softly, over and over,

— Denise Levertov, from “Fair Warning.”

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[geryone]

The Ache of Marriage, Denise Levertov

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[derangedrhythms]

the days of burning, and silence, and distance.

Denise Levertov, Here and Now; from 'The Bird’

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[apoemaday]

The Secret

by Denise Levertov

Two girls discover  the secret of life  in a sudden line of  poetry.

I who don’t know the  secret wrote  the line. They  told me

(through a third person)  they had found it but not what it was  not even

what line it was. No doubt  by now, more than a week  later, they have forgotten  the secret,

the line, the name of  the poem. I love them  for finding what  I can’t find,

and for loving me  for the line I wrote,  and for forgetting it  so that

a thousand times, till death  finds them, they may  discover it again, in other  lines

in other  happenings. And for  wanting to know it,  for

assuming there is  such a secret, yes,  for that  most of all.

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[metamorphesque]

— Denise Levertov, "Looking, Walking, Being"

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[havingapoemwithyou]

love poem by Denise Levertov

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[petaltexturedskies]

Denise Levertov, from “For the New Year 1981”

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[wordscanbeenough]

Denise Levertov, from "Epilogue"

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[lillyli-74]

Photography by Shiwa Rose

Darkly, solemnly, softly, over and over..

~Denise Levertov

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[dionyrtal]

One of my favorite poems of all time.

Denise Levertov, from "O Taste and See: New Poems" (1964), The Secret

[Text ID: Two girls discover / the secret of life / in a sudden line of / poetry.]

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[davidhudson]

Denise Levertov, October 24, 1923 – December 20, 1997.

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[derangedrhythms]

turbulent moon-ridden girl

Denise Levertov, O Taste and See; from 'The Disclosure'

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[apoemaday]

Adam’s Complaint

by Denise Levertov

Some people, no matter what you give them, still want the moon.

The bread, the salt, white meat and dark, still hungry.

The marriage bed and the cradle, still empty arms.

You give them land, their own earth under their feet, still they take to the roads.

And water: dig them the deepest well, still it’s not deep enough to drink the moon from.

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[metamorphesque]

— Denise Levertov, The Secret

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[kiki-de-la-petite-flaque]

My dreams are gone off to hunt yours.

Denise Levertov

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