Quotes about Philip Levine

I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Meet some people who care about poetry the way you do. You'll have that readership....

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It's ironic that while I was a worker in Detroit, which I left when I...

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If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried...

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

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I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary,...

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