Elves are no smaller <br />than men, and walk <br />as men do, in this world, <br />but with more grace than most, <br />and are not immortal. <br /> <br />Their beauty sets them aside <br />from other men and from women <br />unless a woman has that cold fire in her <br />called poet: with that <br /> <br />she may see them and by its light <br />they know her and are not afraid <br />and silver tongues of love <br />flicker between them.<br /><br />Denise Levertov<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-elves/
