Death and pain dominate this world, for though many are cured, they leave still weak, still tremulous, still knowing mortality has whispered to them; have seen in the folding of white bedspreads according to rule the starched pleats of a shroud.
Denise Levertov Quotes
One of the obligations of the writer is to say or sing all that he or she can, to deal with as much of the world as becomes possible to him or her in language.
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| Birth: | 24th October, 1923 |
| Death: | 20th December, 1997 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Poet |
About
Denise Levertov was born in Ilford, Essex, England. She was a British-born American poet, essayist and political activist. She published her first poetry collection, The Double Image, in England in 1940. Seventeen years later, she had her American collection, Here and Now, released. In the 1960s, Levertov was active in the anti-war movement in the United States. Levertov's political and social activism could be seen in such collections as The Sorrow Dance and To Stay Alive. Additionally, she worked as a poetry editor for The Nation in the '60s and for Mother Jones in the '70s. She wrote her most personal essays in her 1995 book, Tesserae: Memories and Suppositions. She won the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize in 1975 for Freeing the Dust.
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