“I love them
for finding what
I can't find, and for loving me
for the line I wrote,
and for forgetting it”

— Denise Levertov

O Taste and See : New Poems (1964), The Secret
Context: 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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Poet 1923–1997

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