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“And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“poems direct as what the birds said,
hard as a floor, sound as a bench,
mysterious as the silence when the tailor
would pause with his needle in the air.”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)