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Denise Levertov
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When he opens his eyes he gives to what he gazes at the recognition no look ever before granted it. It becomes a word.
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Teachers at all levels encourage the idea that you have to talk about things in order to understand them, because they wouldn’t have jobs, otherwise. But it’s phony, you know.
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I like to find what’s not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
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In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms – so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
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Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appears, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds – the invisible shared out in endless abundance.
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Wear scarlet! Tear the green lemons off the tree! I don’t want to forget who I am, what has burned in me, and hang limp and clean, an empty dress -.
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But for us the road unfurls itself, we don’t stop walking, we know there is far to go.
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