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“The world is
not with us enough.
O taste and see.”

Denise Levertov

This a response to William Wordsworth's famous statement: "The world is too much with us late and soon."
O Taste and See : New Poems (1964)

World

“The music reached us. Clumsily,
stumbling over our own roots,
rustling our leaves
in answer,
we moved, we followed.”

Denise Levertov

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

Music

“all of us know he means
we mustn't, any of us, lose touch with the source,
pretend it's not there, cover over
the mineshaft of passion”

Denise Levertov

Conversation in Moscow

Passion

“Praise
the invisible sun burning beyond
the white cold sky, giving us
light and the chimney's shadow.”

Denise Levertov

Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus (1981); Online excerpt http://www.poets.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/16007

Light , Sun

“Perhaps he will not return.
But what we have lived
comes back to us.
We see more.
We feel, as our rings increase,
something that lifts our branches, that stretches our furthest
leaf-tips
further.”

Denise Levertov

A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

Feeling