Back then, I couldn't have left a poem a year and gone back to it. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
But I'm too old to be written about as a young poet. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
But most commonly, it's one poem that I work on with a lot of intensity. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
I listen to jazz about three hours a day. I love Louis Armstrong. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
I started listening to music when I wrote when I had three sons at home. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
I was very lucky to have a mother who encouraged me to become a poet. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
I'm saying look, here they come, pay attention. Let your eyes transform what appears ordinary, commonplace, into what it is, a moment in time, an observed fragment of eternity. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
I'm seventy-one now, so it's hard to imagine a dramatic change. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
If that voice that you created that is most alive in the poem isn't carried throughout the whole poem, then I destroy where it's not there, and I reconstruct it so that that voice is the dominant voice in the poem. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
My father died when I was five, but I grew up in a strong family. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
My mother carried on and supported us; her ambition had been to write poetry and songs. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
My temperament is not geared to that of a novelist. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
No one can write like Vallejo and not sound like a fraud. He's just too much himself and not you. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
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 American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0
There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory. Philip Levine American Poet More Philip Levine Quotes 0