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"The three of them are enveloped
turning now to go crosstown in their
sense of each other, of pleasure,
of weather, of corners,
of leisurely tensions between them
and private silence."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Rainwalkers." |
"though the fall cold
surrounds our warm bed, and though
by day we are singular and often lonely."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. Bedtime (l. 8-10). . .
Poems 1960-1967 [Denise Levertov]. (1983) New Directions. |
"I like to find
what's not found
at once, but lies
within something of another nature,
in repose, distinct."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American poet. Pleasures (l. 1-5). . .
Norton Anthology of Modern Poetry, The. Richard Ellmann and Robert O'Clair, eds. (2d ed., 1988) W. W. Norton & Company. |
"Its clearness
is gone, and
the song.
It is a rich brown, a load
of churned earth
goes with it."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Resolve." |
"mouth to mouth, the covers
pulled over our shoulders
we drowse as horses drowse afield,
in accord; though the fall cold
surrounds our warm bed, and though
by day we are singular and often lonely."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "Bedtime." |
"Prophetic utterance, like poetic utterance, transforms experience and moves the receiver to new attitudes. The kinds of experience—the recognitions or revelations—out of which both prophecy and poetry emerge, are such as to stir the prophet or poet to speech that may exceed their own known capacities; they are "inspired," they breathe in revelation and breathe out new words; and by so doing they transfer over to the listener or reader a parallel experience, a parallel intensity, which impels that person into new attitudes and new actions."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-American essayist. "Poetry, Prophecy, Survival," New and Selected Essays, New Directions (1992). |
"On white linen the silk
of gray shadows ..."
Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo-U.S. poet. "The Ripple." |
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