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Denise Levertov est une poétesse américaine d'origine anglaise née à Ilford, Essex, le 24 octobre 1923 et morte à Seattle le 20 décembre 1997. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. octobre 1923 – 20. décembre 1997
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Denise Levertov: Citations en anglais

“pure dust that is all
in all. Bless,
weightless Spirit. Drink
Caliban, push your tongue
heavy into the calyx.”

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Conversation in Moscow, The Freeing of the Dust

“I am not joking. I'm speaking
of spirit. Not dogma but spirit. The Way.”

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Conversation in Moscow

“I am tired of 'the fine art of unhappiness.”

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Conversation in Moscow, The Wealth of the Destitute

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

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A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

“To me it seems perhaps
Kropotkin understood half
of what we need to know,
and Lenin perhaps
knew half, and true revolution … true revolution
must put these two halves together?”

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Conversation in Moscow

“I like the juicy stem of grass that grows
within the coarser leaf folded round,
and the butteryellow glowin the narrow flute from which the morning-glory
opens blue and cool on a hot morning.”

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Pleasures
With Eyes at the Back of Our Heads (1960)

“Let Ariel learn
a blessing for Caliban
and Caliban drink dew from the lotus
open upon the waters.”

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Conversation in Moscow, The Freeing of the Dust

“Not for one second
will my self hold still, but wanders
anywhere,
everywhere it can turn. Not you,
it is I am absent.”

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A Door in the Hive (1989), Flickering Mind

“He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.”

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St. Peter and the Angel
Oblique Prayers (1984)

“And not till he saw the angel had left him,
alone and free to resume
the ecstatic, dangerous, wearisome roads of
what he had still to do,
not till then did he recognize
this was no dream.”

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St. Peter and the Angel
Oblique Prayers (1984)

“Down through the tomb's inward arch
He has shouldered out into Limbo
to gather them, dazed, from dreamless slumber…”

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A Door in the Hive (1989), Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell

“Didmas,
neighbor in death, Golgotha dust
still streaked on the dried sweat of his body
no one had washed and anointed, is here,
for sequence is not known in Limbo;
the promise, given from cross to cross
at noon, arches beyond sunset and dawn.”

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A Door in the Hive (1989), Ikon: The Harrowing of Hell

“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”

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Conversation in Moscow

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

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

“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.”

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A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

“Lord, not you,
it is I who am absent.”

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A Door in the Hive (1989), Flickering Mind

“And I
in terror
but not in doubt of
what I must do
in anguish, in haste,
wrenched from the earth root after root,
the soil heaving and cracking, the moss tearing asunder —
and behind me the others: my brothers
forgotten since dawn. In the forest
they too had heard,
and were pulling their roots in pain
out of a thousand years' layers of dead leaves,
rolling the rocks away,
breaking themselves
out of
their depths.”

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A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)

“I love them for finding what I can't find, and for loving me for the line I wrote, and for forgetting it so that a thousand times, till death
finds them, they may discover it again, in other lines in other happenings. And for wanting to know it, for assuming there is such a secret, yes, for that most of all.”

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O Taste and See : New Poems (1964), The Secret

“He told of journeys, of where sun and moon go while we stand in dark,
of an earth-journey he dreamed he would take some day
deeper than roots ...
He told of the dreams of man, wars, passions, griefs,
and I, a tree, understood words – ah, it seemed my thick bark would split like a sapling's that grew too fast in the spring when a late frost wounds it.”

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A Tree Telling of Orpheus (1968)