Author: Philip Levine

Quotes

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

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

- Philip Levine

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

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

- Philip Levine

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

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

- Philip Levine

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.

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

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

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

- Philip Levine

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

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

- 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.

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 realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

I realized poetry's the thing that I can do 'cause I can stick at it and work with tremendous intensity.

- Philip Levine

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

There'll always be working people in my poems because I grew up with them, and I am a poet of memory.

- Philip Levine

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