4 Denise Levertov Quotes on Spirituality

Denise Levertov quotes on spirituality

19. To serve the people, one must write for the ideal reader. Only for the ideal reader. And who or what is that ideal reader? God. One must imagine, One must deeply imagine

22. Leaps of nerve, heart - cries of communion: if there is bliss, it has been already and will be; out- reaching, utterly. Blind to itself, flooded with otherness.

27. 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.

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