Quotes by Philip Levine

I'm afraid we live at the mercy of a power, maybe a God, without mercy....

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I write what's given me to write.

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

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

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I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it...

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

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There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and...

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

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Now I think poetry will save nothing from oblivion, but I keep writing about the...

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

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My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist.

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My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you...

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