Not for one second will my self hold still, but wanders any… - Denise Levertov

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

Denise Levertov

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About Denise Levertov

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

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Birth Name: Priscilla Denise Levertoff

Alternative Names: Priscilla D Levertoff • Priscilla Denise Levertov

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

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Theodore Roethke William Carlos Williams Louise Glück Wallace Stevens Robert Frost

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This great unknowing
is part of their holiness.

Rain-diamonds, this winter morning, embellish the tangle of unpruned pear-tree twigs; each solitaire, placed, it appearrs, with considered judgement, bears the light beneath the rifted clouds — the indivisible shared out in endless abundance.

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

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

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