Famous Quotes | Stir of time, the...

Stir of time, the sequence
returning upon itself, branching
a new way. To suffer, pains, hope.
The attention
lives in it as a poem lives or a song
going under the skin of memory.
- Denise Levertov
Attribution: Denise Levertov (b. 1923), Anglo–U.S. poet. “Kingdoms of Heaven.”

Categories: Memory, Poetry And Poets, Time

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