• And our dreams, with what frivolity we have pared them like toenails, clipped them like ends of split hair.

    Denise Levertov: And our dreams,
with what frivolity we have pared them
like toenails, clipped them like ends of
split hair.
    Denise Levertov, Robert Creeley, Paul A. Lacey (2003). “Selected Poems”, p.42, New Directions Publishing