"The Broken Sandal" Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke. Nothing to hold it to my foot. How shall I walk? Barefoot? The sharp stones, the dirt. I w… - Denise Levertov

"The Broken Sandal"

Dreamed the thong of my sandal broke.
Nothing to hold it to my foot.
How shall I walk?
Barefoot?
The sharp stones, the dirt. I would
hobble.
And–
Where was I going?
Where was I going I can't
go to now, unless hurting?
Where am I standing, if I'm
to stand still now?

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About Denise Levertov

Denise Levertov (24 October 1923 – 20 December 1997) was a British-American poet.

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Also Known As

Birth Name: Priscilla Denise Levertoff
Alternative Names: Priscilla D Levertoff Priscilla Denise Levertov

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বিবাহের অবিরাম বেদনা
বিবাহের অবিরাম বেদনা:
উরু আর জিভ, হে প্রিয়,
এর সঙ্গে বেশ ভারি,
তা দাঁতে স্পন্দিত হয়

আমরা আংশিদারীর চেষ্টা করি
কিন্তু ফিরিয়ে দেয়া হয়, হে প্রিয়,
প্রত্যেকে আর প্রত্যেকে

এটা হল প্রকাণ্ড হাঙর আর আমরা
তার পেটের ভেতরে
আনন্দ খুঁজি, কোনও আনন্দ
যা এর বাইরে জানা যাবে না
দুই বনাম দুই এর সিন্দুকের
মধ্যে এর অবিরাম বেদনা ।

Acknowledgement, and celebration, of mystery probably constitutes the most consistent theme of my poetry from its very beginnings. Because it is a matter of which I am conscious, it is possible, however imprecisely, to call it an intellectual position; but it is one which emphasizes the incapacity of reason alone (much though I delight in elegant logic) to comprehend experience, and considers Imagination the chief of human faculties. It must therefore be by the exercise of that faculty that one moves toward faith, and possibly by its failure that one rejects it as delusion. Poems present their testimony as circumstantial evidences, not as closing argument. Where Wallace Stevens says, "God and the imagination are one," I would say that the imagination, which synergizes intellect, emotion and instinct, is the perceptive organ through which it is possible, though not inevitable, to experience God.

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