Poetry Quote by Denise Levertov — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“But for us the road unfurls itself, we don't stop walking, we know there is far to go.”

“The poem has a social effect of some kind whether or not the poet wills it to have. It has a kenetic force, it sets in motion...elements in the reader that would otherwise remain stagnant.”

“Yes, he is here in this”

“Two girls discover the secret of life”

“In the dark I rest,”

“Thus weary of the world, away she hies,”

“But my heart is an old house”

“Blackadder was fifty-four and had come to editing Ash out of pique. He was the son and grandson of Scottish schoolmasters. His grandfather recited poetry on firelight evenings: Marmion, Childe Harold, Ragnarok. His father sent him to Downing College in Cambridge to study under F. R. Leavis. Leavis did to Blackadder what he did to serious students; he showed him the terrible, the magnificent importance and urgency of English literature and simultaneously deprived him of any confidence in his own capacity to contribute to, or change it. The young Blackadder wrote poems, imagined Dr Leavis’s comments on them, and burned them.”

“Sometimes, a child will go under”

“She wore his love like a loaded gun.”

“I was the first Chicano to write in complete sentences.”