In city, in suburb, in forest, no way to stretch out the arms - so if you would grow, go straight up or deep down.
Denise LevertovI like to find what's not found at once, but lies within something of another nature, in repose, distinct.
Denise LevertovDays pass when I forget the mystery. Problems insoluble and problems offering their own ignored solutions jostle for my attention, they crowd its antechamber along with a host of diversions, my courtiers, wearing their colored clothes; caps and bells. And then once more the quiet mystery is present to me, the throng's clamor recedes: the mystery that there is anything, anything at all, let alone cosmos, joy, memory, everything, rather than void: and that, 0 Lord, Creator, Hallowed one, You still, hour by hour sustain it.
Denise Levertov