• Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer upon them; let a boat be kept there.

    Denise Levertov: Let the space under the first storey be dark, let the water
lap the stone posts, and vivid green slime glimmer
upon them; let a boat be kept there.
    Denise Levertov (1967). “The Sorrow Dance: Poems”, [New York] : New Directions