Denise Levertov

Overview

Denise Levertov born Ilford, Essex, England October 24, 1923. Poet; anti-Vietnam War; compiled and edited antiwar poetry anthology Out of the War Shadow, 1967.

Quotations

showing forth
the human power
not to kill, to choose
not to kill. . . 
for the continuing act of
nonviolence, of passionate
reverence, active love.

(conclusion of "What it Could Be"; photo: arlindo-correia.com)