Levertov What Were They Like Quotes & Sayings

As much as writing is an emotional experience, it is a business as well. Coming from a business background, I treat it as such. — Chevy Stevens

If you want to feel secure, do what you already know how to do. If you want to be a true professional and continue to grow ... Go to the cutting edge of your competency, which means a temporary loss of security. So whenever you don't quite know what you're doing, know you're growing. — Madeline Hunter

In the dark I rest,
unready for the light which dawns
day after day,
eager to be shared.
Black silk, shelter me.
I need
more of the night before I open
eyes and heart
to illumination. I must still
grow in the dark like a root
not ready, not ready at all. — Denise Levertov

The way our brain is wired up we only see what we believe is possible. — Candace Pert

People need each other for solving the problem of what is inside. — Matvei Yankelevich

The Last Battle was not hope. The Last Battle was death. But it was a place to be, a place to go. — Robert Jordan

Here
You always belonged here.
You were theirs, certain as a rock.
I'm the one who worries
if I fit in with the furniture
and the landscape.
But I "follow too much
the devices and desires of my own heart."
Already the curves in the road
are familiar to me, and the mountain
in all kinds of light,
treating all people the same.
and when I come over the hill,
I see the house, with its generous
and firm proportions, smoke
rising gaily from the chimney.
I feel my life start up again,
like a cutting when it grows
the first pale and tentative
root hair in a glass of water. — Jane Kenyon

I beg you take courage; the brave soul can mend even disaster. — Catherine The Great

I like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct. — Denise Levertov

The result of these ungodly unions was a race of very wicked and very powerful hybrid (half-fallen angel, half-human) offspring - the Nephilim - who corrupted, harassed, even killed mankind. Now, at the end of the 20th century, we have the return of "alien" entities with apparent supernatural powers. — Chuck Missler

That sounds perfectly reasonable ... he said in a reassuring tone of voice, wondering who he was trying to reassure. — Douglas Adams

And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair. — Denise Levertov

When you feel yourself resisting differences, lean into them, instead,
and have fun with what happens. — Gina Greenlee

You'll know you're doing something right if you feel you don't know what you're doing... if you know what you are doing, you are doing it right- but you might just repeating yourself... — Natasha Tsakos

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

I love Sylvia Plath and Anne Sexton. I also love more cerebral poets like H.D. and Emily Dickinson. My parents subscribed to a monthly poetry periodical, and as a teenager I was introduced to Denise Levertov, who was an influence. — Francesca Lia Block

He was the soul of politeness, my husband. — E.K. Johnston

The people of Somalia just do not have a voice. They are to me the most forgotten people in the world. — K'naan