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

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

Philip Levine quotes: How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.

Philip Levine quotes: My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.

Philip Levine quotes: As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a

As you know, Joyce was a writer who asked his reader to give him a lifetime," he said. "I am that reader, and I can tell you it was a wasted life.

Philip Levine quotes: I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.

Philip Levine quotes: My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

Philip Levine quotes: I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong.

Philip Levine quotes: For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine quotes: From they sack and they belly opened And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth They feed they Lion and he comes.

From they sack and they belly opened
And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth
They feed they Lion and he comes.

Philip Levine quotes: I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home.

Philip Levine quotes: There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

Philip Levine quotes: I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.

Philip Levine quotes: Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary into what it is ... a moment in time; an observed fragment of eternity.

Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary into what it is ... a moment in time; an observed fragment of eternity.

Philip Levine quotes: My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

My earliest poems were a way of talking to somebody. I suppose to myself.

Philip Levine quotes: My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family.

Philip Levine quotes: Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Now I must wait and be still and say nothing I don't know, nothing I haven't lived over and over, and that's everything.

Philip Levine quotes: You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.

Philip Levine quotes: I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

I find you in these tears, few, useless and here at last. Don't come back.

Philip Levine quotes: ...with no morning the day is sold.

...with no morning the day is sold.

Philip Levine quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.

Philip Levine quotes: Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

Listen to these young poets and you'll discover the voice of the present and hear the voice of the future before the future is even here.

Philip Levine quotes: But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity.

Philip Levine quotes: Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it.

Philip Levine quotes: I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

Philip Levine quotes: I write what's given me to write.

I write what's given me to write.

Philip Levine quotes: But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.

Philip Levine quotes: I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet.

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

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