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Philip Levine Quotes & Sayings
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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
Philip Levine
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But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
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I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.
Philip Levine
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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.
Philip Levine
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For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
Philip Levine
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My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.
Philip Levine
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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
Philip Levine
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But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.
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I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
Philip Levine
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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.
Philip Levine
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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
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I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.
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My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
Philip Levine
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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership. Keep going until you know you're doing work that's worthy. And then see what happens. That's my advice.
Philip Levine
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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I was twenty six, my sense was that the thing that's going to stop me from being a poet is the fact that I'm doing this crummy work.
Philip Levine
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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity.
Philip Levine
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I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy. And yet we find it, as I have, from others.
Philip Levine
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Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.
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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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