Philip Levine Quotes & Sayings

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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote.

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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

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No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you.

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the ordinary because for me it's the home of the extraordinary, the only home.

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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.

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