our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm … - Denise Levertov

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If it is warming, it's because it's happened before, cyclitic, it will happen again, regardless of what you and I do.

Denise Levertov

our nerve filaments twitch with its presence day and night, nothing we say has not the husky phlegm of it in the saying, nothing we do has the quickness, the sureness, the deep intelligence living at peace would have.

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