Quotes from Oblique Prayers — Denise Levertov
1923–1997 England
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He himself must be
the key, now, to the next door,
the next terrors of freedom and joy.
Oblique Prayers (1984)
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.
Oblique Prayers (1984)
Delivered out of raw continual pain,
smell of darkness, groans of those others
to whom he was chained — unchained, and led
past the sleepers,
door after door silently opening —
out!
Oblique Prayers (1984)