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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry.
— Philip Levine
How weightless/ words are when nothing will do.
— Philip Levine
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs.
— Philip Levine
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
I say, Father, the years have brought me here, still your son, they have brought me to a life I cannot understand.
— Philip Levine
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.
— Philip Levine
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.
— Philip Levine
Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary into what it is ... a moment in time; an observed fragment of eternity.
— Philip Levine
...with no morning the day is sold.
— Philip Levine
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
And all that was hidden burning on the oil-stained earth
They feed they Lion and he comes. — Philip Levine
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.
— Philip Levine
I still believe in this country, that it can fulfill the destiny Blake and Whitman envisioned. I still believe in American poetry.
— Philip Levine
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
You have begun to separate the dark from the dark.
— Philip Levine
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
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change.
— Philip Levine
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
Throughout his work, Philip Levine's most powerful commitment has been to the failed and lost, the marginal, the unloved, the unwanted.
— Edward Hirsch
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.
— Philip Levine
I'm very grateful to all the people of Fresno, to Philip Levine and all the poets before me, and all the farmworkers. I didn't get here by myself.
— Juan Felipe Herrera
I write what's given me to write.
— Philip Levine
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet.
— Philip Levine