Famous quotes containing the word levertov:
“slowly
smoothing in long
sliding strokes
our soapy hands along each other’s
slippery cool bodies”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“and the deaf soul
struggles, strains forward, to lip-read what it needs:
and something is said, quickly,
in words of cloud-shadows moving and
the unmoving turn of the road, something
not quite caught ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“slowly the pale
dew-beads of light
lapped up from flowers
can thicken,
darken to gold:
honey of the human.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)