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I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. Philip Levine Home 90
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. Philip Levine Become 86
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. Philip Levine Myself 80
I have a sense that many Americans, especially those like me with European or foreign parents, feel they have to invent their families just as they have to invent themselves. Philip Levine Especially 77
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Philip Levine Poetry 72
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 Poetry 72
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. Philip Levine Armstrong 70
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. Philip Levine Poetry 69
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. Philip Levine Geared 60
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. Philip Levine Poetry 57
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. Philip Levine Poetry 52
I find you in these tears few useless and here at last. Dont come back. Philip Levine Tears 41
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. Philip Levine Poetry 40
the river sliding along its banks darker now than the sky descending a last time to scatter its diamonds into these black waters that contain the day that passed the night to come. Excerpt from the poem The Mercy Philip Levine Stars 35
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. Philip Levine Died 34
My sense of a poem - my notion of how you revise - is: you get yourself into a state where what you are intensely conscious of is not why you wrote it or how you wrote it, but what you wrote. Philip Levine Conscious 29
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 Power 29

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