Famous quotes containing the word levertov:
“The motor idles.
Over the immense upland
the pulse of their blossoming
thunders through us.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“he walks with me
to the gate of Home and leaves me.
I enter.
Mother is gone,
only Things remain.
So be it.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)
“blue bead on the wick,
there’s that in me that
burns and chills, blackening
my heart with its soot,
I think sometimes not Apollo heard me
but a different god.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)