“If one wanted to say what it was seemed most insistent in either her work or her person, it would be—always for me—the fact of body, the immediacy of that presence in all she wrote or was.

The exceptional grace—a dancer’s, I liked to think—of her work, the movement so particular to a complex of thought and feeling, accomplished a rare unity.”

Robert Creeley on Denise Levertov

(with whom I am having a love-affair, for the second time, though very differently than before)