Author: Philip Levine

Quotes

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

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

- 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

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.

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

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

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

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

- Philip Levine

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

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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